In other industries, allowing further competition and opening the market has led to further innovation and lessened costs.

The financial system, for example? you criticized government for "opening up" that market, will you criticize them again if they repeat that failed exercise in healthcare and it goes the same way? All evidence is that this system will be unaffordable inside a decade, some say as quickly as 5 years. YOU won't be able to afford it. What then?

Why would you expect it to be different with health care? If we've never had a true "free market" in the modern medical era and costs continue to spiral out of control, why should we push for more restriction?

Who is pushing for more restriction? And note the use of that word "modern" in your quotation, referring to incentivized entry of commercial profit into the mix with market segregation into those who need insurance including the largest most expensive group, the elderly, who are paid for by taxes, and a generally fit population amply served by commercial insurers at a cost up to 100% higher than anywhere else in the industrialized world. Your problem is that these insurers have established near-monopolies and woeful efficiency since the last time government tried to incentivize their involvement and now you ask "why should healthcare be different?" Why indeed.