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There's an episode of the Econtalk podcast that covers medical pricing. https://www.econtalk.org/keith-smith-on-free-market-health-care/ https://www.econtalk.or
by hackeraccount 5y ago
There's an episode of the Econtalk podcast that covers medical pricing.
https://www.econtalk.org/keith-smith-on-free-market-health-care/ https://www.econtalk.org/keith-smith-on-free-market-health-c...
It is clearly coming from a ... more sympathetic to free markets side of the argument but I honestly believe it's interesting on it's own terms.
It includes an explanation of the delightful term "compensated uncompensated care"
- adolph 5y agoI think a whole universe of content could be expanded from that episode and I wish that more of the people commenting here would listen to that episode.
- Workaccount2 5y agoWhile I admit I haven't listened to the podcast (yet) I'm not sure how you get around that issue that the free market value of medical services will defacto price in the value of your life and health, which is infinite.