My Cato Institute colleague Alex Nowrasteh recently posted a succinct, but thorough and insightful critique of ten ideas in the Democratic Socialists of America (DSA) platform. No socialist economy has ever solved the problem of efficiently allocating those resources without prices set by market exchange…..3. America's own health care problems cannot be blamed on free markets because the United States does not have a free market health care system. The specific portions of national health care systems under direct government control, and the ways they are controlled, vary across countries. American health care is a largely government-run system.