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Re:What I learned from reading a thousand emergency room bills by mulmen on Wednesday December 19, 2018 @04:58PM (#18720133)
"Move to a better market" seems like an argument that some local marketplaces have failed. The whole value proposition of the free market is that it improves the available services and prices through competition. If I have to move somewhere else to find a market where this is true then the local market is clearly failing and the free market idea doesn't work.

Said another way: Should I then also move when I want to find a better price on milk?

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Re:What I learned from reading a thousand emergency room bills by munk-a on Wednesday December 19, 2018 @05:42PM (#18720577)
"Move to a better market" also fails with regards to the fact that you may need the services when not at home. If you were working in sales would you refuse to do an onsite meeting with a client because their office is near a terrible hospital?
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Re:What I learned from reading a thousand emergency room bills by krupan on Wednesday December 19, 2018 @05:25PM (#18720424)
I mean, I know people that moved away from Hawaii precisely because they couldn't afford the milk there.

Believe it or not there are people who move into cities because of better fire departments, police departments, etc.

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Re:What I learned from reading a thousand emergency room bills by mulmen on Wednesday December 19, 2018 @05:33PM (#18720498)
Did they leave Hawaii only because of the price of milk or because staple goods in general were more expensive than other places? In this case the market is working but it is a market where cities compete on cost of living, not milk. In that case moving makes sense.
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