Can the Free Market Fix Health Care? Listen to Michael Cannon vs. Jonathan Cohn at the Soho Forum (Reason Podcast)

Summary: "The U.S. [health care system] is what you get when you let government run rampant," says Michael F. Cannon, who's the Cato Institute’s director of health policy studies. "The government controls half of our health care spending directly and the other half indirectly." Would Americans be better off if the government pulled back and let markets function? That was the topic of a debate held Monday night at the Soho Forum, a monthly Oxford-style debate series that "features topics of special interest to libertarians" and "aims to enhance social and professional ties within the New York City libertarian community." Cannon's debating partner was The Huffington Post's Jonathan Cohn, author of the 2007 book, Sick: The Untold Story of America's Health Care Crisis—and the People Who Pay the Price.