> The opaqueness with which care is paid means that consumers receiving care have little incentive to shop around
And how would healthcare "consumers" be able to "shop around" while in an emergency situation?
This is the standard free market fantasy. It's all too common among healthcare startups, given that they are nearly all market-based solutions by nature and have a built-in incentive to ignore socialized medicine as a solution.
You'd think if we were really serious about improving our healthcare system we'd, you know, look at stuff that works and is field-tested, like for example the healthcare systems in basically all the other industrialized nations in the world.
And how would healthcare "consumers" be able to "shop around" while in an emergency situation?
This is the standard free market fantasy. It's all too common among healthcare startups, given that they are nearly all market-based solutions by nature and have a built-in incentive to ignore socialized medicine as a solution.
You'd think if we were really serious about improving our healthcare system we'd, you know, look at stuff that works and is field-tested, like for example the healthcare systems in basically all the other industrialized nations in the world.