Samhain
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Strawman. A bit ironic given your profile name and picture.
I said that healthcare does not respond to normal market forces. Everyone needs health care and very few can pay for the full cost and society bears a great deal of burden to compensate for those individuals who still obtain the healthcare, but can not afford the costs, and society also bears a great deal of burden to compensate for those individuals who do not obtain the healthcare. Those are very valid reasons for the need to regulate.
Everyone participates in the health market because the health market does not respond to ordinary market forces. Everyone has a need for medical services at some point in their life and the overwhelming majority of individuals can not afford the actual cost associated with most medical care. It requires an odd interpretation for someone to try and claim that "cancer" or "heart disease" is the sole responsibility of the individual when the society also faces tremendous costs when that individual can not afford the medical care necessary to deal with their issue.
You keep refining what you said, and you are still arriving at the same conclusion: The government must pay individuals to get something that being alive requires. What are you list of required subsidies all should receive because it's the Federal governments responsibility to provide?