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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
by 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 agoThe 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.