Because those are things that are an actual market. Health care often times isn't. You can choose what grocery store you go to, what apartment you rent, what

Because those are things that are an actual market. Health care often times isn't. You can choose what grocery store you go to, what apartment you rent, what cell phone you buy. Usually, unless your planning sucked, you have days/weeks/months to figure out what is good value, and compare prices, that kinda thing. Health care, on the other hand, can be, and at least in my case, usually is, a monopoly. I've got 1 large company that runs most of the doctors offices and all of the hospitals in the area, so they don't have many competitors. Also, for emergency stuff, you don't have a chance to even think about shopping around. Broke a bone? Yeah, sounds like a great time to pull out the phone and shop around for doctors that would be able to set it for cheaper.