US healthcare is not a free market and never will be.
http://www.businessinsider.com/daily-show-steven-brill-obamacare-2014-1
"Everyone says, 'Well it's a marketplace.' That guy [the cancer patient] has no choice in buying that drug. His doctor told him, 'This will save your life. You don't take it, you're gonna die,'" Brill responded.
He further argued free markets must have two aspects â a balance between buyers and sellers and secondly, knowledge â neither of which the current U.S. system offers.
"That cancer drug has a patent. That is a monopoly that the government has given the drug company. There is no other drug. That's the drug," Brill said.
"It's not like he [the cancer patient] woke up one morning and said, 'Gee, I'd like to go shop for a cancer drug. I wonder what's out there. And if I like it, I'll buy it, and if I don't, you know, I'll buy a pair of shoes.'"
"What does a free market usually have? There's a balance between the buyer and the seller. There is no balance now, you've got to buy that product."
"In a free market, there's also knowledge. You don't have any knowledge. Your doctor is telling you what to buy â this cat scan and this MRI at a hospital that probably employs that doctor. So he's got an incentive to do it."
Why won't US provide its citizens of good reasonably priced healthcare like Europe, Canada and south americans countries like Costa Rica?
http://www.businessinsider.com/daily-show-steven-brill-obamacare-2014-1
"Everyone says, 'Well it's a marketplace.' That guy [the cancer patient] has no choice in buying that drug. His doctor told him, 'This will save your life. You don't take it, you're gonna die,'" Brill responded.
He further argued free markets must have two aspects â a balance between buyers and sellers and secondly, knowledge â neither of which the current U.S. system offers.
"That cancer drug has a patent. That is a monopoly that the government has given the drug company. There is no other drug. That's the drug," Brill said.
"It's not like he [the cancer patient] woke up one morning and said, 'Gee, I'd like to go shop for a cancer drug. I wonder what's out there. And if I like it, I'll buy it, and if I don't, you know, I'll buy a pair of shoes.'"
"What does a free market usually have? There's a balance between the buyer and the seller. There is no balance now, you've got to buy that product."
"In a free market, there's also knowledge. You don't have any knowledge. Your doctor is telling you what to buy â this cat scan and this MRI at a hospital that probably employs that doctor. So he's got an incentive to do it."
Why won't US provide its citizens of good reasonably priced healthcare like Europe, Canada and south americans countries like Costa Rica?
