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She may not have used those precise words, but she did say ""Toss it out and start over? Yes, because it's based on a false premise. Our health care system is based on the premise that health care is a commodity like VCRs or computers and that it should be distributed according to the ability to pay in the same way that consumer goods are. That's not what health care should be. Health care is a need; it's not a commodity, and it should be distributed according to need. If you're very sick, you should have a lot of it. If you're not sick, you shouldn't have a lot of it.""   I think the editor who added that line to the article summarised the position in that way. Smmarising the long piece as ""incremental changes in a free-market system are ""doomed to fail"" does not seem inacurate to me because she is calling for wholesale reform and stating that free market principles should not apply. You may or may not agree with that, but that is what she is arguing. I do not think you should delete it but if needed add a fuller quote.  "