The market mechanism is a remarkable process.  Buyers and sellers exchange money in an open system that produces prices and production levels to equate supply and demand.  (Also known as Keynes’ invisible hand, the market mechanism is an alternative to central planning.)  Chinese leaders added the market mechanism to its communist political system, and economic growth skyrocketed. In theory, the market mechanism leads to an ideal allocation of goods, services and workers’ efforts for society.  In practice, ideal output misses the mark when prices fail to reflect societal benefits and costs, consumers are not well-informed, or monopolistic-like power exists. One area where the market mechanism often fails is healthcare.  A healthy population benefits everyone, from employers in need of a productive workforce to the government (and taxpayers) who cover the costs of the social safety net to each of us as individuals…