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Independent · 07-01-2009, 07:56 PM

It's more or less a Tragedy of the Commons situation. We've got a communal resource (insurance or tax dollars for medical care) that gets over used because individual and joint gains/costs don't align. The value of an MRI today on my sore knee far exceeds the additional premium I will pay because of that one MRI.

07-01-2009, 07:56 PM	#13
Independent Thinks s/he gets paid by the post Join Date: Oct 2006 Posts: 1,090	It's more or less a Tragedy of the Commons situation. We've got a communal resource (insurance or tax dollars for medical care) that gets over used because individual and joint gains/costs don't align. The value of an MRI today on my sore knee far exceeds the additional premium I will pay because of that one MRI.