“Finally, someone in power gets it.”

Nope. Someone in power shows she clearly does NOT get it, quite the opposite. It’s OK, congress is filled with people who don’t “get it”, they just show it in different ways.

You can not divorce a service (which is what healthcare is) from the economics of providing that service. Your point that a healthy society lowers the cost of that service, is true, but it is irrelevant to the discussion of how best to provide that service. When you provide a service for free or for lower than the cost of creating the service, the demand for it goes up.

So instead, you will simply ration the service. It is not a question of if, it is a question of when and by how much. As time goes on, in a rationed healthcare service, the rationing will increase.

This isnt even a contraversial position. It happens in every single healthcare system in the world where the government thinks they know better than the people who are supplying the service. The NHS, the Danish healthcare system, the French healthcare system are all rescinding more services every year. Heck the Swedish have moved to a more private system. And these are the countries where the anticapitalists think healthcare is “working”. Never mind the tiny size of these counties. What happens when you compare to countries closer to the US in populatin? Would you enjoy the Indonesian healthcare system? How about the Brazillian one? The Indian Healthcare system? See a pattern?

The rest of your article, shows that you, like AOC, have spent little or no time understanding the basics of market capitalism. If you say things like “All the market knows is supply, demand, and price”, My guess is, like every single anti-capitalist screed I see on Medium, you conflate the way our economic system works with capitalism. It is not.

Crony Capitalism is not capitalism, it is a form of socialism, and THAT is what we have.

When the government is deciding where people and companies can and can not buy drugs from, when they are making it so that providing the most basic of medical care devices costs will over a million dollars just to get through the FDA, when they are adding inneffective laws that add to the cost of administration rather then delivery of medicine, and when lobbying efforts grease the wheel to get through most of this, you are not living in a capitalist society, you are living in one where the power is heavily centralized. All of these things are impediments to capitalism. All of these things raise the cost and bring the service farther away from the folks who need it most.

And you and AOC, inexplicably, want more of that.