Politics

Is Real Free-Market Health Care Even Possible?

No Half Measures!

Why is health care so expensive? Because people don’t pay for it. Their employers do. We need to eliminate the middle man. But much easier said than done.

Matt Lewis
Matt Lewis 

Senior Columnist

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Matt Lewis

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