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Even if you do put healthcare on the hands of for-profit, it could work, what with the high demand and hospitals being big players, meaning they have scale, a big prerequisite for lowering price.
At least for the "common" ailments.
That being said, there's no competition, the only true capitalist prerequisite for capitalism working.
So basically, capitalist healthcare could work, but US healthcare is basically as late-stage as capitalism could get, so alas - no.