re: #581 EmmmieG

Price caps cause shortages. That’s an established fact. Medicare patients have a harder time finding doctors.

Okay.

Medicare prices are capped. Private aren’t.

Well, they are. Insurance companies tell doctors what they will pay. That is the same as Medicare.

Why would doctors operate differently than any other service?

Because healthcare is rather different from getting your hair cut.

Check-ups? You’d ask around and get a pediatrician that you thought provided good care for a good price.

Can you show this in effect? Can you show me a country where this is true?

If you had food insurance, and you went out to buy food, knowing that you would pay a set amount for your food, you’d only be concerned about the quality, not the cost.

Actually, you’d factor in a bunch of other concerns, like how close the place was, how likely it was they’d have a selection of things that you wanted, etc. Analogies are always tricky that way. But ‘food insurance’ has no relationship to health insurance anyway, being A) non-existent and B) dealing with a good and not a service. So even by your own strictures, by which health care is just another service, you can’t compare it to ‘food insurance’.