Why is Our Free-Market System more Expensive than Other Systems?

  In America, we believe in the free-market system. And, we believe it holds prices down. Competition always does that.
  So, it should strike us as a little odd that we pay the highest prices of any nation for our health care. What, do we say: that we have wandered from what we pretend to be? That we are not as free market as we suppose we are? Or, do we suggest the free market system isn't working, after all?
  Look at the countries with nationalized medicine. Look at the countries with one-payer systems. How do we explain that their systems are less expensive than ours?
   Our is not the free-market system at its best. It is a system in need of overhaul.