Americans have always been very pro business, pro competition, pro free market.

美国人一向很支持商业，支持竞争，支持自由市场。

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But in a highly regulated economy such as Japan, which does not have free competition and lacks equality of opportunity, inequality can also be hard to escape.

但在日本这样一个难言拥有自由竞争、且缺乏机会公平的、受到高度规制的经济体中，不公平也将在所难免。

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The individual insurance market, which comes closest to the conservative ideal of free competition, has huge administrative costs and has no demonstrated ability to reduce other costs.

单独的保险市场最接近保守派自由竞争的理想，不但存在着巨大的行政成本，而且减少其它成本的方面并没有显示出什么能力。

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