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I honestly don't understand why good healthcare should develop under free rational conditions. Why shouldn't a hospital charge your everything while you are in

• actionfromafar 1y ago
  When people say “no regulations” they almost always mean “except these unspoken base rules I take for granted”. Unregulated market is an oxymoron. It’s always regulated by someone, warlords being the extreme devolution.
• roenxi 1y ago
  You could ask the same question most things. Food and water for example - both more urgent and more necessary than most medical care. The costs are still low.
  • threatofrain 1y ago
    For food and water, if you were caught in a tough place, I suppose I could charge you for everything. But most people aren't refugees in a hostile land, so they have the time to drive around. For a medical emergency it does make sense for a doctor to ask if you would like to voluntarily consider an interesting bargain.
    • roenxi 1y ago
      The vast, vast majority of the spending in the healthcare industry is for things that you have time to drive around for. And I'd still rather have a private option in the event of a medical emergency. Ironically, insurance in a free market is actually really good at sorting out that sort of risk. The insurance company has strong incentives to negotiate what will happen in an emergency and it isn't that hard to make agreements with people in advance.