I have a friend who spent years with horrible throat pain and difficulty swallowing. She needed an operation but, with no insurance and no money, she couldn’t get help. She tried going to a hospital emergency room, but was told she wasn’t sick enough. She actually, seriously thought about committing a crime to get help, but didn’t because of her daughter. Finally, she was able to negotiate the morass of Medicare, etc and get fixed up with an expensive, multi-hour operation. The doctor told her if she had been able to get it treated early, it could have been handled in an office visit.
#118
And now we’ve come full circle – its you who doesn’t understand how markets work.
For the umpteenth time – the “free market” does not apply here. There’s no market choice in “use this product, at the going rate, or die.”
So sharing the burden as a community is theft, but placing the burden squarely on the shoulders of a few doctors, is not? I’m sure many doctors would do as you ask, maybe even to their detriment. Many would not. Plus, the free market would discourage it.
“Maybe someone else will solve the problem” is no solution at all.
#121, There’s no market choice in “use this product, at the going rate, or die.”
Of course not if there is a monopoly.
But if you have doctors competing for your service then the price will come down. Unless you are scared they would price fix . . .
And charity hospitals will pay for those who can’t afford even that.
a few doctors
Are you serious?!?!!?
Texas has more CHARITY hospitals than it has for profit hospitals! You still have to prove you can’t afford it but these hospitals are completely funded by donations (Cooks Children, Scottish Rite, Texas Health, etc.). They take insurance, cash, or chickens.
Dude, you need to do some research on a subject if you are going to back a particular side. This kind of information is never reported on.
And it not meeeeeeeeeeee who doesn’t under free markets. It’s youuuuuuuuu who doesn’t understand free markets.