[Klinky]

Not really the point I was making. People will go to great lengths and effectively destroy their own life in the pursuit of saving a loved one. This makes it hard to take seriously the concept that a a free market full of economically rational consumers would exist when it comes to costly medical decisions.

It's easy to say "if you didn't want to be poor, you shouldn't have bought that plasma tv or new smartphone", versus "if you didn't want to be poor you should have let your wife die instead of taking a second mortgage out on your house".

Most people do not have a maximum price on something they consider priceless.