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How can someone call a car crash victim a "consumer"? (regarding health market)
Posted on 9/21/14 at 2:35 am
Posted on 9/21/14 at 2:35 am
How can somehow honestly consider a severely injured person a health consumer? When you are unconscious and on the verge of death, you don't have the ability to compare prices. Hospital costs are high because of this. It is impossible for there to be a market for hospital care (in trauma cases), for a prerequisite to a market is an educated consumer.
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Posted on 9/21/14 at 3:02 am to HailHailtoMichigan!
Insurance already has a way of handling emergency situations versus others. So not a big deal IMO.
Posted on 9/21/14 at 9:39 am to HailHailtoMichigan!
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How can somehow honestly consider a severely injured person a health consumer?
If they are severely injured and are NOT a health consumer - they won't last long, will they?
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When you are unconscious and on the verge of death, you don't have the ability to compare prices.
That's why you buy insurance. The insurance company, in most cases, has negotiated those prices on your behalf BEFORE you even get hurt.
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It is impossible for there to be a market for hospital care (in trauma cases), for a prerequisite to a market is an educated consumer.
If markets only exist when all the players in it are fully informed then I would propose there aren't that many of them.
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