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Originally Posted by onwebcam
Competition drives down prices.
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Yes, it does. Which is why hospitals and other healthcare providers are almost completely opaque about their pricing, which makes comparison shopping not only time-consuming, but next to impossible, and makes the idea that there's a competitive healthcare marketplace in place just laughable.
As other developed nations have demonstrated, the best way to keep down healthcare costs is not by creating an illusion of competition, but by having a single payer (i.e., the government) deal with providers, pharmaceutical companies, etc.