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Why? We're on a free market. Surely they could simply add a big surcharge. I'd expect their insurance to go way up too.


There is no free market. Due to the Affordable Care Act (Obamacare), medical insurers aren't legally allowed to set premiums based on vaccination status.

https://www.healthcare.gov/how-plans-set-your-premiums/


Let's not pretend that insurance based payment even remotely resembled a free market before.


Medical services do not have price-elastic demand just because they are offered in a free market. It's the other way actually; I'd imagine medical services are some of the most price-inelastic things you can buy.




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