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So, erm, what about all the poor people in the US that can't take a journey out to Asia when they need care?

(I don't automatically disagree with your free-market assertion, mind you...we have quite a captive one here. You just need to use a bit better justification.)



I didn't claim that medical tourism is the solution to all problems. I merely claimed that there are highly effective free market medical systems. I.e., the world is bigger than simply USA and Canada.


Well, medical-tourism isn't an answer to everyone's problems, at all ends of the socioeconomic spectrum. But if your assertion is indeed correct (that poor people aren't getting access to medicine in the US), then that's another argument against socialized (at least of the American-kind) medicine, and not at all a failing of free-market medicine.




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