No medical care is a highly government controlled segment. Big time government controlled.
If medical care was free like food, that would not be an issue, but the government is big-time involved in medicine. Big time.
Yet we let it become a highly manipulated market. That is why Obamacare took roots - because we let it run out of control.
Government is highly involved in medicine. Big time. It is not an issue to me, that they are now involved in it, to eliminate some of the worst abuses.
Granted Obamacare is not the answer, but a free-for all which leaves Americans to be exploited is what we had, and that is even worse.
You mentioned clothing, housing, furnishings, education and entertainment.
None of those are the same. The only one which is similar is education, because of the regulations involved. Clothing, housing, furnishings and entertainment are all free.
Education is another area we need to reign in prices. But that is another subject. :D
The government involvement is the problem. Big time.
Medical care and medical insurance did not used to be government controlled, and it does not have to be. But because it is, prices are no longer controlled by supply and demand. Government has distorted the natural market. That involvement created the worst abuses - prices far higher than could have existed naturally, industrial scale fraud, and bureaucratic overhead that impedes good treatment.
Government is the problem, not the solution.
Just because the socialists have managed to get the government involved in controlling a sector, like medical care or education, does not mean that it must forever be their domain.
When we need to fix the distortions that come from political control over markets, the effective solution is to remove the government control from it - not to give over complete control.
More government = bigger problem.