Arkolon wrote:Olivaero wrote:Competition wont reduce the cost of health care, when your having a heart attack your in no position to make a rational judgement about which hospital offers the best care for the most reasonable price. You need the closest care and that is the one you'll be given.
... don't you know how the health insurance system works?
Oh you can find what you consider a reasonable premium to pay but then the negotiation is no longer between the consumer and the healthcare companies it's then between the insurer and the healthcare providers the insurers which may not always have your bets interests at heart. Let me put it this way when some one needs medical care, they need to go to the nearest doctor possible right? so they're taken to the nearest doctor possible and given what ever service they need in this situation is the isurance company going to be shopping around for which hospital to put you in? No. you go to the one which is closest and the one that you need. The demand is inelastic so competition doesn't work as well. In other markets if if the price of ham goes up then people switch to beef if the price of the medical care they need goes up...what do they switch to?