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Not even monopolies, literally no market forces. If you have a heart attack or a stroke, it doesn't matter what the prices listed for care are or customer revie
by thinkingtoilet 3y ago
Not even monopolies, literally no market forces. If you have a heart attack or a stroke, it doesn't matter what the prices listed for care are or customer reviews. You get to a hospital as fast as you fucking can. There are literally no market forces in play a lot of the time. Also, if you don't live in a big city, there may only be a single hospital by you that provides the treatment you need. Again, no market forces.
- JumpCrisscross 3y agoIt’s useful to separate medicine from ER in healthcare discussions. In ER, there is no market. In healthcare, we have a deeply-flawed market. But in most zip codes, there is some competition.
- bakedoatmeal 3y agoThe ED is the primary source of hospital admissions so I don’t think the two are that separable.
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- JumpCrisscross 3y agoIn part due to access-to-care issues. More competition in medicine should increase access thereby reducing ED use. One that comes to mind are in-house visits, something expensive for no good reason in America.
- cameldrv 3y agoIt's being reduced though. A lot of private practices are being bought out by big (in many cases for-profit) hospital or doctor's groups, and the doctors are put on salaries instead of owning their practices. In many areas there is now only one big group. Naturally this can be highly profitable.