Re:Nobel economist takes aim at rent-seeking banking and hea...
by dragonwriter on Friday March 10, 2017 @01:23PM
(#13840765)
> Why aren't we complaining about how Big Box hospitals are super inferior and bragging about the extra buck we spend to treat ourselves to an organic mom and pop MRI?
There are people that do something very much parallel to this, but they are the people who can afford to hire elite, exclusive, low-client-load physicians who aren't on the short office meeting clock that common insurance reimbursement provides, and do similar things with other medical facilities.
It's just that it's not the middle class looking down on the working class over this, but a fairly narrow slice of the upper class looking down at the rest of society.
There are people that do something very much parallel to this, but they are the people who can afford to hire elite, exclusive, low-client-load physicians who aren't on the short office meeting clock that common insurance reimbursement provides, and do similar things with other medical facilities.
It's just that it's not the middle class looking down on the working class over this, but a fairly narrow slice of the upper class looking down at the rest of society.