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What happens when a not-so-good doctor charges very cheap and start a price war? Or to make it affordable, the doctor cuts corners? Who's to tell the doctor to

• jackowayed 13y ago
  There are laws and medical licenses for this reason. There are always incentives to cut costs, whether administering medicine for cash from patients or for insurance payments. At least with this model, the patient is choosing the doctor, paying him, and receiving he care. So if he cuts corners in a way that makes the patient less satisfied (eg. very short appointments, cramped/dilapidated office, bad on-time performance, office in a bad part of town), the patient can choose to go elsewhere. If it's the one place the patient's insurance will cover thanks to the reduced price from cutting those corners, the patient has no real choice.
• tomohawk 13y ago
  What happens when a not-so-good doctor charges the same as everyone else? What happens when really excellent doctors end up having to charge the same as really poor ones? What happens when there is no decent way for patents to know the good ones from the bad? You end up where we are now where mediocrity is rewarded and excellence is punished, and they both cost the same. It is well past time to allow some market forces to work in this area. At least things would be more rational.