>But in a majority of cases, bad care would lead to non-death but non-ideal resolution. That's where price signals will flourish.
Conjecture. Got proof? (let's say, a statistical analysis between the recent spate of doctors who no longer accept insurance -- only cold hard cash or credit -- and their Swedish counterparts in both patient care and malpractice suite rate)
That's the thing about this entire argument. We're point at those other folks that seem to be a doing a lot better job at this whole keeping people healthy thing than we are. And you're pointing at this conjecture that maybe people make rational decisions in a market.
And we know that's not true.
Just look at homeopathic medicine to see how well the free market does, without FDA intervention, at keeping people healthy - and getting them healthy if they aren't.
Conjecture. Got proof? (let's say, a statistical analysis between the recent spate of doctors who no longer accept insurance -- only cold hard cash or credit -- and their Swedish counterparts in both patient care and malpractice suite rate)
That's the thing about this entire argument. We're point at those other folks that seem to be a doing a lot better job at this whole keeping people healthy thing than we are. And you're pointing at this conjecture that maybe people make rational decisions in a market.
And we know that's not true.
Just look at homeopathic medicine to see how well the free market does, without FDA intervention, at keeping people healthy - and getting them healthy if they aren't.