re: #12 Dangerman

This is Looney tunes

Of course it is. Don’t these free market folks realize that their fee for service just like the Good Old Days plan will kill medical research in its tracks? That it will make getting good medical care for themselves way more inconvenient?

No one is going to spend hundreds of millions of dollars on developing new drugs, procedures, or even doing basic research to understand the cause of various conditions and illnesses if there isn’t a return on investment. If that’s not there, the work won’t be done and you won’t be able to get treatment no matter how rich or privileged you are.

Having an MRI machine at your local hospital depends on lots of people using it to defray the cost. If most of those people can’t afford to do that, there will be only as many MRI machines as can be kept busy by those who can afford them. It may require considerable travel to get to one.

These people are idiots.