*Yeah, let the “free market” decide. Manufacturer charges what he wants and the government pays or you die. That’s how it works, right?*
I’m a physician and a conservative/libertarian. The free market is the preferred method for determining price, but it does have its limit. I don’t feel like it’s right to charge “what the market will bear” in all/most cases when the health of the disadvantaged is concerned.
Flame away.
Oh and flame away they will. There are those who don’t understand any need for any regulation or restriction against rape of the people. I guess they have not been raped enough or have not yet had enough opportunity to dish out abuse of others ina self-serving way.
The presence of a Constitution suggests something better than anarchy and the absence of anarchy is some set of limited government and limited controls and standards. A lot just don’t see that.
How is it then that medical practices such as the Surgical Center of Oklahoma can charge what is does and remain in business? Do you not believe that an increase in such centers would not lower the costs of said medical care significantly, possibly by as much as 80%?
There’s no free market in drugs. You have monopoly, monopsony, information as symmetries and enormous barriers to entry.