Also bidding up the prices. Consider even if the state did nothing else besides just heavily subsidizing certain healthcare companies. Seems benign enough, right? But in fact that would massively bid up prices for all inputs in that industry, causing a "crowding out" effect where the inputs become artificially too expensive for most non-subsidized firms to compete. Companies go out of business until only the ones joined at the hip with the government are still around, bloated monopolies or oligopolies with very little profit motive. Then to compensate the government will start providing free healthcare, driving up prices more. Total clusterf*ck. Not to mention endless reams of regulation on top of all that. And people wonder why healthcare is expensive.