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Anymouse šŸŒ¹šŸ”šŸ˜·5/06/2019 8:32:07 pm PDT

re: #8 Chrysicat

More specifically, genius was mainly so far on the ā€œskin in the game! If people had to pay cash for their prescriptions, but those prescriptions were manufactured by many different companies, the market would drive prices to ā€˜saneā€™ points.ā€ But that always leads to ā€œERs should have posted prices and you should drive until you qualifyā€ and ā€œUS medicine is overpriced because there arenā€™t enough providers active, and we need to kill the gatekeeper systemā€.

And none of that makes much sense.

Drugs are patented. They arenā€™t going to be manufactured by ā€œmany different companiesā€ unless you get rid of patents.

Drive around checking ER prices? Wonderful. The nearest ER to me is sixteen miles away. The next two nearest ERā€™s are sixty miles away (one south, one west). Beyond that, the next nearest ER is a hundred miles away.

If I have an emergency (thatā€™s part of the name ER), Iā€™m not going to be driving around in a three hundred mile circle looking for the best prices (even if an ER could put up a price list like McDonalds).

If youā€™re in an accident, they take you to the nearest hospital, not the cheapest hospital.

There are not enough providers active because it costs a metric fuquetonne of money to open a hospital. Even in huge cities like Chicago or Dallas someoneā€™s not going to come along and plunk ā€œJoeā€™s Cut-Rate Hospital Service! We guarantee to beat the competition!ā€ in town.

Thatā€™s neither how business nor hospitals work.

Libertarians really donā€™t understand things like business and profit, do they?