Non-emergency medicine, also inelastic. There's no hurry on your shoulder surgery, but there's also no point at which you say "Geez, at that price I'd rather n

Non-emergency medicine, also inelastic. There's no hurry on your shoulder surgery, but there's also no point at which you say "Geez, at that price I'd rather not", like it's iMax tickets for Iron Man 3. Maybe there's a point at which you literally can't make it happen and are forced to live with it but it is not a Normal Good with Econ 101 supply/demand curves. I guess that one could contend that our current f'd up situation is a random historical accident rather than a somewhat predictable outcome from treating an essential good as a market good. But you certainly can't claim it's a functioning market, for any definition of functioning or market.