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This is simply not true, as I said, risk factors into every price.
> Where are the incentives for early diagnosis and prevention in free market healthcare?
Don't you feel any incentive to take care of yourself with early diagnosis and prevention?
> pure free market healthcare provides an intrinsic incentive to extract abusive profit from a customer whose life or wellbeing are on the line
Just like if you're hungry. But food in a free market is cheap and plentiful.
> who does not have the knowledge to decide whether they really need this expensive procedure they are being offered.
The beauty of the free market is the consumer gets to decide who to trust.
> There's no reason to assume it wouldn't be even worse under a completely free market.
The US had a free market in health care up to the 1960s, and there's no evidence of the dark predictions you make for it.
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This is simply not true, as I said, risk factors into every price.
> Where are the incentives for early diagnosis and prevention in free market healthcare?
Don't you feel any incentive to take care of yourself with early diagnosis and prevention?
> pure free market healthcare provides an intrinsic incentive to extract abusive profit from a customer whose life or wellbeing are on the line
Just like if you're hungry. But food in a free market is cheap and plentiful.
> who does not have the knowledge to decide whether they really need this expensive procedure they are being offered.
The beauty of the free market is the consumer gets to decide who to trust.
> There's no reason to assume it wouldn't be even worse under a completely free market.
The US had a free market in health care up to the 1960s, and there's no evidence of the dark predictions you make for it.