The purpose of health care is to help people fight illness, stay well, and live longer. The free market is by far the most effective method that can be used to destroy disease and give people the greatest chance to achieve their full wellness potential.
The free market destroys disease by allowing people, not the government, to control their own health care. The free market gives patients, in consultation with their doctor and other providers, choices in how much and what kind of medical treatments they receive. Instead of government bureaucrats imposing waiting lists and dictating who receives care, patients make those important decisions for themselves.
The free market destroys disease through patient choice and consumerism, just like with other economic activities. Patients, as consumers of health care, can compare treatment quality and price and make their own decisions based on what is best for themselves and their families. It is not a one-size-fits-all government plan.
The free market destroys disease through innovation. Private investment in new drugs and medical devices creates products in an efficient manner that can actually be beneficial to patients. In contrast, government monopolies in health care lead to waste, shortages, and rationing.
Like in other economic areas, the free market guarantees that medical products brought to clinical use will actually help people. If a new medical product has no benefit for patients, resources will be applied elsewhere. The government cannot respond as efficiently as people working in the free market can to create useful innovations. It is cumbersome and without any profit motive can waste taxpayer money without any consequences.
The free market destroys disease by allocating limited financing efficiently. The market can respond quickly with hundreds of thousands of patients and providers making medical decisions that are in the best interest of the patient. Government control, on the other hand, does not allow for individual differences among patients. It gets entangled in special interest politics and is slow to respond to changing health care needs of specific people and communities in general.
The free market destroys disease by removing health care financing from political competition. With government control, health care is forced to compete in the budget-writing process with all other government activities, such as education and defense, for limited tax dollars.
The free market destroys poverty and provides the highest and cleanest standard of living the world has ever seen. Widespread sanitation and healthier living conditions, made possible by free market prosperity, help protect people from getting sick in the first place. The free market destroys disease in the most effective and efficient manner and makes the patient, not the government, the most important part of the health care equation.