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Re:Medical equipment pricing is completely broken when a sli... by mruts on Saturday September 14, 2019 @07:56AM (#20970238)
I don’t think you could find even one person who thinks our healthcare system is a free market system. If only we could make it a free market system I think most of the problems would solve themselves. Unfortunately, I don’t think it’s feasible to untangle the decades of junk laws. Instead, it honestly might just be a better idea to implement single-payer. At least the incentives mostly line up unlike 3rd party payer.
Re:Medical equipment pricing is completely broken when a sli... by stjohnswarts on Sunday September 15, 2019 @01:19PM (#20978284)
How can you have a free market system where the most expensive items are heart attacks, organ replacements, brain operations and other situations where you often don't have a chance to "shop around"? Unless we have price controls and socialized medicine like other more modern nations, our system will remain a failure.