Trade is just too long a conversation to get into in a Health Care thread, so I'll leave that alone.
"I do not see how free market can work for health insurance."
Well, we really don't know because we haven't had "free market" health care since the 1920's. I wouldn't argue that the government doesn't have some room to intervene with respect to the kind of people that are covered and setting the conditions in which they could be dropped.
Additionally, there is something wrong when Doctors have multiple negligence findings and are allowed to keep their licenses. My sense is this is a result from Doctors judging Doctors. Again, there may be some room for limited government intervention here. I would guess, however that there are satisfactory regulations already in place, but they're just not being enforced.
My point is that there is indeed room for either additional regulation or better regulation in our health care system. However, that's not the direction we are headed. We are headed towards a UK/Canadian style, government mandated, single payor system. That is going to be the death of high quality health care that most Americans have become accustomed.
I don’t want nationalized health care...don’t misunderstand. I don’t want to get into free trade...too long as you noted, but I am damned mad that good jobs were lost-it could have been avoided...I’ve been sounding the warning for quite a while now that such a loss would lead to socialism, and it has. We will never go back to pay as you go insurance because health cost is way to expensive for most Americans to cover. So what now?
I am always respectful and enjoy a good debate...as for doctors, there is no government regulation of doctors in any state This is left up to other doctors and rarely are bad doctors licenses suspended...if they were, they merely set up shop in a different state...no idea how to fix this.