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Originally Posted by Martha
But when health care is the most expensive often we are not in a position to make a judgment or even care about cost. For example, note this post today in another thread:
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This is absolutely true. And it is one of the reasons a pure free market system will never work in health care. Nobody having a heart attack is in any position to haggle over price.
But emergent care is only one part of the cost problem. And applying comparative effectiveness policies can help control costs in these areas where market forces are unavailable. But everywhere else, the consumer should see, and feel, the cost of their care. Nobody except the truly destitute should have the first dollar of their care paid for by someone else. Nobody should be able to pay a $10 co-pay and then step up to an all-you-can eat buffet of expensive medical procedures. That is a recipe for over consumption if I ever saw one.
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