[tavavex]

How does "this is less common in healthcare" become "this is irrelevant"? My point is that healthcare can never be treated as a free market because you'll be sacrificing the dying people, even if there are few of them. And even if you don't need a treatment here and now, an illness that you must deal with awards the healthcare industry infinite leverage. You can't choose not to be a customer, you have to pick someone, which means the providers can silently collude with one another. Even if you're not dying, the power and incentives in the healthcare industry are so misaligned that the market model is inherently rotten when applied to it.