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Re:Your New Medical Credit Score Could Deny You Care by uoaei on Thursday February 06, 2020 @12:17PM (#22257954)
I don't think anyone's talking about free markets, just private ones.

Those laws exist because capitalist forces incentivize healthcare providers to limit competition.

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Re:Your New Medical Credit Score Could Deny You Care by merpnderp on Thursday February 06, 2020 @09:21PM (#22262673)
That's not true. In a lot of places those laws were put in place to protect county hospitals from private competition.
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