So many people can't seem to grasp the concept of a free market, believing that everything must have some form of centralized control.

Healthcare, for example. I often say I’d like to see a true free market in the industry, and the immediate response is, "Okay, so how would it work?"... as if I need to present a fully developed business plan for an industry I have no intention of entering.

Every time, I have to clarify that I’m a hockey coach, not a healthcare entrepreneur. My focus is on my own field; someone else can figure out how to compete in healthcare.

At this point, the conversation usually shifts to, "So you want to get rid of universal healthcare, but you don’t even know what you'd replace it with? How does that make sense?"

That’s when I explain how incentives function in a free market and how they drive innovation, efficiency, and competition in every industry where market forces are allowed to work. I outline how these same dynamics would apply to healthcare.

And yet, inevitably, the discussion loops back to the original question: "Okay, but how would it actually work? How would you run it?"... as if my personal blueprint is the prerequisite for the concept itself to be valid.

It's annoying.