User:Nick Gardner /Sandbox

It can be argued that a person's freedom of choice is not reduced when the state makes a choice the that person would otherwise have made, and Kenneth Arrow has argued that state-provided insurance has the effect of increasing individual freedom of choice when market-provided insurance is not available. Arrow made that case in the context of an absence of medical insurance, but noted that it applies in principle to any situation in which the market's provision differs fron the competitive model