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choosing that expense you doom the ones who can not afford it. Do I? Elsewhere in this thread is a post about a surgeon greatly improving the lives of those w

choosing that expense you doom the ones who can not afford it. Do I? Elsewhere in this thread is a post about a surgeon greatly improving the lives of those who cannot afford it by buying a used laparoscopic tool and creatively applying it. I've had laparoscopic surgery; thanks to the high price I & others pay, the laparoscopic instruments used may have replaced the very same one that Indian doctor is using. Far from "dooming the ones who cannot afford it", the system which regularly replaces top-end tools makes entirely acceptable equipment very affordable to regions which can't pay top-end prices. Disallow me from paying an extra $50,000 to get that extra 0.75% survival odds, and the surgeon very well may not buy that next-generation laparoscopic tool and, as a consequence, sell the still-perfectly-good used one at low cost ... making it possible for another doctor to increase the survival rate for his patients by 5%.

GhotiFish 13y ago
Are you sure that the constant push to the top-end lowers average prices? If we spend all our time making lamborghinis, that means that the old lamborghinis will be cheaper thus cars more affordable? I doubt this strategy. Make more laproscopic tools. Rather than tell your economic inferiors to live off your scraps. The healthcare market cannot chose to capture deadweight losses. People would view health care professionals treating rich and poor with different medical standards as an abomination. There is no Healthcare basic edition, Home basic, Home premium, Professional, Ultimate. If you raise the general cost of a heart surgery from $50K to $55K, and lower the mortatilty rate from 5% to 4.5%. Does the amount of people you save with that 0.5% worth the amount of people who can't make it to 55K, but could make it to 50K? Are you sure these numbers are in your favor? Well, I mean, yes of course they're in your favor, I mean everyone, as a whole.

GhotiFish 13y ago

Are you sure that the constant push to the top-end lowers average prices? If we spend all our time making lamborghinis, that means that the old lamborghinis will be cheaper thus cars more affordable? I doubt this strategy. Make more laproscopic tools. Rather than tell your economic inferiors to live off your scraps. The healthcare market cannot chose to capture deadweight losses. People would view health care professionals treating rich and poor with different medical standards as an abomination. There is no Healthcare basic edition, Home basic, Home premium, Professional, Ultimate. If you raise the general cost of a heart surgery from $50K to $55K, and lower the mortatilty rate from 5% to 4.5%. Does the amount of people you save with that 0.5% worth the amount of people who can't make it to 55K, but could make it to 50K? Are you sure these numbers are in your favor? Well, I mean, yes of course they're in your favor, I mean everyone, as a whole.