Nicholas Weininger, writing at Catallarchy writes:

In debates about health care it is often assumed by all sides that the US has the least socialist, most free-market health care system of any modern developed country. Advocates of market provision of health care point to the US system’s advantages as evidence of the advantages of markets; proponents of socialized medicine point to our problems as evidence of market failure. Both will concede that our system is not really a completely free market, but say that despite some significant deviations from the ideal, we still have the closest approximation to a market health system in the First World.

But is that premise true? I want to argue that it may well be false– that there may be other countries whose health care systems are more free-market than ours in most significant ways. This requires that I talk about what “more free-market” means and what it does not mean; I’m going to claim that the metrics by which it seems that the US is the most free-market are bad ones, and that the right metrics are inconclusive at best. Warning: geekery ahead.

Is he right? Go here and here to read more and find out for yourself.