The Paradox of Private Health Insurance.
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5 min readFeb 19, 2020
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…