Why medical care is a potentially inefficient market?

Or if you don't believe in any free market possibility, can you answer why a voucher system might not be a reasonable alternative to a single payer system. Health care delivery is a complex and emotional/moralistic issue, no doubt. What I want to understand...

It would seem to me that the services surrounding health care would be motivated to decrease their costs and prices to compete with each other for patients. For example, the cost of hospital care skyrockets compared to wages, products and services in...

There is a lack of integration between providers. There is little economies of scale (doctors are often in small groups). There are often duplicate procedures. There are high overhead costs by both the providers and the insurers in billing. There are...

People have faith in the government to save them from the high cost of health care. But it is the government's fault health care costs are so high. We are over regulated and there are too many lobbyists. People trust the government to give good care...

As a lifelong hard working middle class American, I have never had a moment in my life when I cared a thing about the stock market---up, down, or whatever. What's the point of worrying about what's happening in the stock market? Why would anyone put...

care about the stock market. i have no money there why do i need to wooory about it going down or not can someone tell me. becacause where i work give me no free money for the stock ...show more

Lets say a bondholder A buys a bond for $1,000 with a 10% interest paid annually..then after he buys it...the market interest rate of the bond increases to to 15%...therefore issuers would have to sell their bonds for a less amount like $700...Would...

... while there are a lot of reading devices in the 6" to 8" market. Samsung Note is popular in the 5.x" market. Isn't the iPad too heavy and iPhone too small, for reading purposes?

I heard yesterday on TV, a guy who was saying that in his state he had a list of one health care insurance company from which to choose. Would not his situation change if that list grew to twenty-five or more? I am thinking that these billion dollar...