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For each medical condition, there exists a wide range of treatment options, all varying in efficacy, convenience, pain, risk, and cost. If cost were no consideration, why should anyone not get the most costly treatment available, even if it is only a minor improvement?


Most people don't behave that way. You seem to be assuming that people always want to squeeze everything they can out of a system but that's simply not the case in real life.


> Most people don't behave that way.

They don't? How many patients in a "free" health care system ever ask what the cost is for any of the options?

If coach / first class were offered to you, free of charge, which would you pick?

Is it a coincidence that electric cars are suddenly taking off in the UK when their TCO (Total Cost of Ownership) dropped below that of gas cars?

Building a mass market system that relies on the bulk of people behaving altruistically is not likely to work.




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