>I did address it, and you are ignoring it. I honestly do not care how insulted you are, or how rude you think I am.
That's simply untrue. Where did you address it. Let me reiterate, you have not responded to this:
>Having the means to pay and needing the service for life or death reasons have nothing do with the forces that drive costs down, namely consumers bargain hunting for the lowest price service that offers adequate an level of quality. Neither being poor nor needing a service for a life-or-death reasons, will prevent consumers from bargain hunting. The factors are orthogonal to those that affect cost trends.
This was my rebuttal to your argument, and to date, has not been addressed. You falsely claim you addressed it and then quickly went back to your rude, anti-intellectual ranting.
>You removed any right to be cordially addressed when you pushed non-sense into this board, and then had the audacity to actually treat it as if you were being scientific.
You're displaying an unscientific and demagogic attitude, where you justify belligence with your own subjective determination that a party's argument is "nonsense".
>Part of being scientific is asking your own position, "What does this look like if the theory is wrong?" It's called falsifiability.
That's obvious and doesn't need to be stated. If cosmetic surgery prices had increased as much as procedures in other fields of medicine, that would count as evidence against the theory that a consumer market drives prices down. The article didn't need to pose that question because the evidence doesn't falsify its theory.
>No because they put their blinders on and didn't bother to actually look at any other direction except for the one they wanted to see.
You're making assumptions, not evidence-based arguments.
Like I said, you have not addressed the arguments I've made, and you have behaved like a putelent child, in being rude and trying to justify your rudeness.
Look I get it. I understand how you feel. You see some POS free market ideologue arguing that the free market is what we need in healthcare, when we've all seen that Europe's government run healthcare vastly outperforms the capitalist US healthcare system at a fraction of the cost. You wonder how someone could be so blind to facts, and so indoctrinated by simplistic ideology that is promoted by the American right and its bevy of propaganda-spewing think thanks. You see POSs like this polluting the minds of the public with their pseudo-religous free market dogma, and preventing far better public options - that would save lives and cost less, while guaranteeing universal coverage - from gaining the critical public support needed to be implemented.
I know where you're coming from, and if only you had an open mind, I could explain why your assumptions are wrong.