You can't exit the food market, either, and yet there is clearly a thriving free market for food. How does your theory account for this?
- SNAP / EBT / Foodstamps for people making so little money. Add onto that, Food banks.
- Farm subsidies for many cheap foodstuffs (Corn) causing massive cheap, albeit junk food that can sustain.
- I can literally grow food in the ground for "free", put it in mason jars and save my food for a year. I can't open a fresh can of broken-arm at the fixed cost.
- Food is fungible, if I'm hungry, I can wait 2, 3, 8+ hours to eat, or have a quick snack until meal time. It's not like I need a Big Mac infusion in the next 10 seconds or else I'll die from lack of special sauce.
- You have many options of food. You can eat Soylent, rice&beans, or steak for every meal at various price points. You don't really get an ala carte when it comes to Chemotherapy.
- You can always eat monkey pellets [1]
[1] https://www.reddit.com/r/moreplatesmoredates/comments/qbfkfl...
This is true only in an extremely pedantic, unrealistic kinda way. If it was easy/free everyone would be growing all their own food.
Within 5 miles, I have at least 10 different grocery stores to shop at. Each will carry hundreds of products at less than $10 each. Not only do I have tons of choices, but the pricing is completely transparent. And that's just grocery stores. Add restaurants (Both sit-down restaurants and fast food), and that number quickly reaches over 100 within a 5-mile radius.
If I'm in a medical emergency and someone dials 911, I'm likely just being brought to the nearest hospital. I have zero choice in the matter, and will come out with whatever bill they want to charge me.
Even in non-emergencies, good luck shopping on price. Doctor offices don't like giving that out.
There's competition in the food market, but not healthcare.
Where ad hominem is a hallmark of good faith discussion.
> Within 5 miles, I have at least 10 different grocery stores to shop at. Each will carry hundreds of products at less than $10 each. Not only do I have tons of choices, but the pricing is completely transparent. And that's just grocery stores. Add restaurants (Both sit-down restaurants and fast food), and that number quickly reaches over 100 within a 5-mile radius.
This makes sense if you're aware of the fact that each human being eats three meals per day.
> If I'm in a medical emergency and someone dials 911, I'm likely just being brought to the nearest hospital. I have zero choice in the matter, and will come out with whatever bill they want to charge me. Even in non-emergencies, good luck shopping on price. Doctor offices don't like giving that out.
I clearly conceded the point that you can't exit the healthcare market.
> There's competition in the food market, but not healthcare.
Are you under the impression that I disagree with this statement? Consider reading (and, ideally, understanding) the thread in which you are participating prior to commenting.