I completely agree and commend Ian Randall for the column about the effects of free markets on healthcare costs "Free markets cause health-care costs to get out of control" (SN 10/30). Little attention is devoted to our obviously faulty medical care system in the United States.

Instead of making changes, I continue to notice practicing doctors and money-making pharmaceutical companies reinforcing a fallacious, botched system.

Thank you for bringing attention to a system in need of serious assistance.

Dana Krozek
interdisciplinary studies in social science-health studies and political science junior