I just had a repairman come to fix my water purification system. He was here for about 10 minutes, and charged me $149. That is much more than a physician would make in that same time period evaluating a patient. You can barely get $150 for a tonsillectomy under Medicaid ( not much more with other insurance plans) . For that tonsillectomy, the charges are all lumped together. The preop visit, the surgery, and 90 days post op are the complete payment of $150 you receive for a very high risk procedure. Think Jahi McMath. If there were free market forces, the prices at least on the physician end would increase.Payments to providers are already at the bottom of the barrel. Also, computer makers left the USA to run sweat shops in China to drop their employee cost.The computer maker does not have to hire thousands of super skilled workers like hospitals all across the country have to do. They hire peasants out of the villages to work for a paltry salary. Electronics and healthcare are two different scenarios ,and you cannot compare the two.
Which is NOT to say that computer manufacturing is anything like the healthcare industry, much less that the costs should be comparable... but rather to say, broadly, that market competition favors the consumer, and that this principle works across industries. Including the healthcare industry.
Did you even read the article at the link I provided?