The Fable of Health Care and the Free Market

This elections season (Is there any other season any more?) the issue of health care is on every one's lips. Different folks offer different solutions. Many talk with disdain about interference from Washington. They just want the government to stay out of health care and let the free market work. Indeed, mention the "Free Market" and some people will buy almost any argument for doing nothing. This is especially true with health care -- or the lack of it -- for millions of Americans. Here's the way I see it: Free Market = Rational Choice, right? Now, you tell me how rational you are when you or a loved one is sick. Are you going to want to hope, to fight for the latest, most expensive treatment or are you just going to say your goodbyes? What do you think?