re: #795 Obdicut

That doesn’t answer the question at all, dude. Fee-for-service is free market. So would be, for example, salaried positions for doctors. Your response makes no sense.

If you don’t know what the fee-for-service thingy is, read the Gawande article I linked above, which explains it well.

It’s not really a “free market” when the insurance company or HMO that carries 2/3 of the insured people within a 50-mile radius announces what fee they’ve decided they’ll pay for what service, take it or leave it — and any doctor or hospital who doesn’t take it is stricken from the acceptable providers list. And then the HMO comes back two years later to announce they’re cutting their reimbursement by 20%. And again two years after that.