To: Jeff Chandler
It's also expensive because it's a free market, the drug companies etc. are going to charge as much as they can (which they should). Like any other business, they don't have a benchmark they reach and say, "Okay, halt the price increases, we've made enough money!" It's also expensive because you have a lot of non-paying "customers" in the form of illegals and folks who simply don't have the money to pay. And too, we now have a lot of fancy-pants equipment like MRIs that are pricey items.
15 posted on
01/21/2007 2:12:18 AM PST by
durasell
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To: durasell
It's also expensive because you have a lot of non-paying "customers" in the form of illegals and folks who simply don't have the money to pay. Millions and millions of them. Then there are the lawyers...
16 posted on
01/21/2007 2:14:09 AM PST by
Jeff Chandler
("... without victory there is no survival." - Winston Churchill)
To: durasell
Medical care is not, and cannot be, a free market for a very simple reason - unless a customer is after some absolutely elective procedure, the customer really needing medical care is not quite a dispassionate rational market customer comparing the prices [not readily available anyway] and quality of the product prior to purchase. Sometimes the bests doctor is the nearest one.
53 posted on
01/21/2007 8:42:26 AM PST by
GSlob
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