Op-ed: The invisible hand struggles to help health care

In a recent debate with other candidates for Utah’s 3rd Congressional District, John Curtis said that we not only have to repeal Obamacare, but we must restructure the whole industry to rely exclusively on the free market. To illustrate his point, he said that elective surgeries such as Lasik are cheap because the free market allows for greater competition that drives down price.Dr. Kathie Allen, who has decades of experience in the health care market, pointed out that Mayor Curtis’