[desertfreedom765]

“If you go back and watch old episodes of “Little House on the Prairie,” one of the things you notice is that Dr. Baker didn’t get paid by insurance companies. In fact, he often got paid in livestock or food commodities (eggs, for example) rather than in cash. “

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That might have worked with the simple technology and procedures back then but it won’t work now.

If someone get cancer or a heart attack, then the bill is going to be in the many 100’s of thousands. No one has that many chickens..

If we had a free market economy then people would quickly find the solutions that worked for them.

The medical field is the most regulated and mismanaged part of the economy. With predictable results

[Alberta's Child]

I don't disagree with you, but what you're saying is that people can't afford to pay for medical procedures that have become commonplace these days.

Hey, guess what ... pushing off the cost of these procedures on others doesn't make them any more "affordable" in the long run.

If we had a free market economy, then many of these medical procedures probably wouldn't exist.