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To: DonaldC

A significant drop seems unlikely unless something drives costs to crater.


WalMart now has an on-site doctor (kinda like the vision center) that charges $40 per visit. If you let a truly free market regulate prices, the cost of health care will go down significantly. Free market health care INSURANCE would have to follow.

The reason prices have done what they have done for the last several decades is, in part, because the market has not really been “free”.


69 posted on 11/17/2014 10:16:52 AM PST by cuban leaf (The US will not survive the obama presidency. The world may not either.)
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To: cuban leaf

It actually creates a split. Prices for the lower level stuff will go down, but the prices for the higher level stuff (major surgery, time spent in an MRI machine) which are being subsidized by higher prices for the lower level stuff, will go up.

The only way to drive down costs is to ... control costs. Thats hard to do for the actual services themselves so you look at things like administrative overhead, malpractice insurance and limiting what services are provided (unnecessary tests, for instance)


75 posted on 11/17/2014 10:25:18 AM PST by tanknetter
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