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Food and cars are things you can touch. Health isn't. Markets work well for things you can touch, and poorly for things you can't.

It's just the natural limits to our concept of property at play. Maybe everybody knows what you mean if you say that you're going to go down the street and buy yourself a surgery, but nobody thinks it's a natural way to talk about that sort of thing.



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