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Medicine should not be totally based on supply and demand, I totally agree. Catastrophic care, preventative care, etc…those are things we just have to find a way to pay for.
That said, those are not the biggest growth areas in costs. You look at costs, the biggest areas are growth are stuff that could, in some sense, be considered elective. We need to put a cost on that, and pass it to patients. If there is no incentive to reduce cost on the patient’s end, there will never be cost control, unless you ration.
