Avi
BTW your impressive knwoledge of “Jewish and general history and economics,” aside which system works better is not at all relevent to what the Torah supports and opposes.
Also I dont understand your calculator example. ddi your father the calcuator in a non-free enterprise society, or one that followed the Torah and now your are comparing it ot a cheaper price in a pure-free market scoiety? otherwise what does it have to do with anything?
On the other hand I’l give you an example that while not relevant to our discussion (of hwo the Torah opposes pure free market capitalism), is relevant to the original discussion about health care
Augmentin is an antibiotic. one pill in the US costs 19 cents. In Belgium the very same pill costs about half a cent (you read that correctly)
Care to guess why?