A free market involves a customer that has the option to simply not buy what is on offer. Healthcare can never be a free market in this sense, because the customer is faced with a choice of "buy service and/or product" or "be dead".
That is entirely unlike the choice involved in buying something like a refrigerator and seriously skews the applicability of traditional free market thinking to the problem.
That is entirely unlike the choice involved in buying something like a refrigerator and seriously skews the applicability of traditional free market thinking to the problem.