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Both are horrible to ever exist!
And for the same reason - it can never be a free market if demand and supply aren't both free.
Wanting healthcare when in need isn't really that much of a free choice (demand).
That means on supply side where everyone is motivated by profit you don't need any sort of collusion for everyone to consistently pump up healthcare costs & healthcare insurance premiums, there just isn't any downside.
Direct market competition is financially pointless so all you ever see is mergers.
Oh - and comprehensive national healthcare has insurance built in naturally & efficiently bcs countries have millions of people that pay for healthcare (and no profit is privatised, even better, participants aren't driven by profit).
In recent decades in Europe we underfunded national healthcare providers & are now slowly privatising it - costs are soaring (nothing compared to USA, but we know what's happening, yet we don't vote for it/representatives don't act on it).