(07-18-2018, 02:09 PM)pirkster Wrote:

(07-17-2018, 07:34 AM)flsprtsgod Wrote: Pricing isn't arbitrary, even in our overly regulated health care system.

The over-regulation, in fact, is what has caused prices to skyrocket and be unrealistic, unsustainable.

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(07-17-2018, 10:29 PM)lastonealive Wrote: And how do they set the price? Also could efficiencies be found with a single payer model

So-called "single payer" has been proven to be a failure.

In reality, the single payer is the patient.  It's the patient's responsibility alone.  Your care, your responsibility.  How you meet it that obligation (through insurance and out of pocket) is up to you to navigate and decide how to approach.

I don't find, and you haven't offered, evidence in support of either claim that you make above.
The British and Canadian systems are both stressed, yes, but are still doing better than us in terms of prices (including the part that government pays) and outcomes.

My claim is that a low supply of doctors and insufficient competition between hospitals is driving costs up. As evidence I can refer you to WHO statistics on the number of physicians per capita. In Western Europe they have twice as many as we do.

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