Is healthcare really an emergency "most of the time," though?
Absolutely, cardiac arrest, appendicitis, car wrecks, gunshot wounds, strokes...these are not the time to be haggling over prices.
But take something like cancer treatment. There aren't many medical conditions that are more expensive than that. Even in the current system, you get second opinions, evaluate options, choose what hospital to go to, and do everything else classical capitalism requires of a buyer EXCEPT for looking at the cost.
I've never looked at the numbers comparing true emergency, life-threatening care to all the other important (but less urgent) care. I would think true emergencies are vastly outnumbered by the other stuff.
For the purposes of this discussion, I concede that emergency care is a bit of a problem in a pure capitalistic model. But I haven't seen any other model that doesn't have problems of the same magnitude.
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Posted: 06/29/2017 at 9:15PM