The Paradox of Private Health Insurance.

Petr Swedock
The Startup
Published in
5 min readFeb 19, 2020

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Why, in a supposedly free market, do health insurance companies have to be forced to insure people?

It is a simple question of supply and demand: Any honest economist will tell you that basic free market theory says that if there is a demand for a service, somebody will supply it.

How then to explain the millions of people who want to pay for health insurance, but can…

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Petr Swedock
The Startup

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