Supermarkets is exactly what I had in mind, but perhaps it was stupid. The cost of health care is kind of… a×b+c×d, except more complicated, where a is the hou

Supermarkets is exactly what I had in mind, but perhaps it was stupid. The cost of health care is kind of… a×b+c×d, except more complicated, where a is the hourly cost of a physician, b is the number of times you get an hour's care, c is the cost of a pill and d is the number of pills you get. Want the total sum to decrease? Then pick which one of a, b, c and d you want to decrease, and look at whether competition can help. A lot of this thread sounds like just "private equity is evil and therefore guilty", nothing to do with goal-directed efficacy.