Agreed. Crony capitalism, what we nearly entirely have in the US, is only technically short of fascism in that the government doesn't claim ownership, but the private and public sectors are bought and paid for by the same group of extremely powerful people.
The government being their fingers in the mix always is ruinous to competition and progress, and we see in healthcare, finance, and education especially.
It's not a symptom of the free market but what happens as a market slowly becomes less and less free offer the decades.
I'm not an anarchist or libertarian, but you could accurately describe me as a Thomistic minarchist.