[Yaelle]

Take anything in the super market, for example, eggs. A huge number of people buy eggs. A relatively small percent buy with food stamps those same eggs.

Where else can you get a dozen of anything, cleaned, packaged, shipped, shelved, priced, registered, and bagged for little more than a dollar?

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You did not finish your great analogy. I refuse to buy eggs laid by chickens stuffed into a crowded coop for life. So I pay extra for eggs from chickens who live in a pasture, running around, eating bugs etc. Again, the market carries all of this. Medicine should have the same strata as everything else in an open market situation. Concierge service, no frills clinics, and everything in between.

[xzins]

No frills clinics are the wave of the future. My doc prefers a clean transaction between himself and patient. Much easier for him than the enormously expensive paperwork route of insurance companies and/or government.