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To keep it short too. assert patients.satisfaction.relevance > efficiency.relevance investment.efficiency => profit investment.efficiency !=> patients.effici

To keep it short too. assert patients.satisfaction.relevance > efficiency.relevance investment.efficiency => profit investment.efficiency !=> patients.efficiency investment.efficiency !=> patients.health Long version: I am living the consequences of this in my country itself; they make you wait months for one date, even if they suspect cancer; you know why they make you wait so much time? Because they want to make sure you health insurance payments are the ones pre-paying for the specialist service (or at least a good part of it) before you stop paying or before you die. There is people with cancer standing long hours in queues just because some guys through it was really smart to overprice common medical resources and lobby in the congress for laws that help them abuse their clients (aka patients) and government subsidies.

guylhem 14y ago
"they make you wait months for one date" - that is unacceptable, just like overpricing is. The medical market has far too much friction and rent seeking behaviour. I do not agree with the short version, but I agree with your long version. I dream about the day when (if?) the medical market become a perfect market in the economical sense - price taking behaviour, pure and perfect competition, factors of production being paid at their marginal productivity I believe that, among other things, the financial incentives are a step forward. We apparently have different ways, but a same goal.