>Yes, MRI might be required right now but they can also be required in a few days, or weeks. Some cases you can wait and see if it is needed at all. All of the people could shop around and go to the 1k place.
In what manner do you expect this to be done? You're talking about buying a machine that is upwards of 800K, not including facilities and staff. Then, you're marketing it to a reduced price. Thats your competition strategy, to do it cheaper. Sure, it may create competition and the hospital will reduce their prices. Then you're out of an investment pretty quickly, and as such its not a sustainable business model.
Thats not to mention that healthcare again, is a service. Its created to be all-encompassing, and even if an MRI is more expensive in-hospital, your doctor can still highly suggest you do that, and you'll do it. Because you don't know any better, and you probably really don't.
>You will want a good doctor that will actually fix your knee. But you would not want to pay 2x the going rate from a slightly better doctor.
How do you know the quality of the doctor? You don't. You know what the hospital looks like, and how the doctor acts. You have no idea about what they're doing is correct or really what you need. So, yes, actually, people will pay 2x for a better doctor or hospital, because the easy reasoning is 'they'll have to do it once'. The other hospitals may have to do it multiple times, and do unnecessary things because they're just not as experienced, not as funded. It doesn't matter if its true or not, because you don't have access to that information, and neither are individuals who usually think they're knowledged know the complexities of what they're talking about.
>Yes there is guaranteed market for food but that does mean that any given supplier will get that market.
Again, simplifications that don't add up to healthcare. You, your person, is not food. Its not a car. Its not a house. Everything else is replacable. You are not. This is important, because that is the incentive and expectations of the service. Which, again, this is a service, not a product.
>It seems like you are assuming a monopoly or something.
Yes. Healthcare is very monopalistic. It doesn't have to be one monopoly to be a guaranteed market, because this spans the entire U.S. Its like saying Telecoms aren't a monopoly. Sure, not strictly speaking, but effectively you don't get an option. Healthcare is significantly more so, because as I said, its care, you physically need it to survive in many cases. Therefore, it does not matter if the market as a whole, due to the few that have control, increases prices for worse service. You will bend to it, because you have to. That is a guaranteed market.
In what manner do you expect this to be done? You're talking about buying a machine that is upwards of 800K, not including facilities and staff. Then, you're marketing it to a reduced price. Thats your competition strategy, to do it cheaper. Sure, it may create competition and the hospital will reduce their prices. Then you're out of an investment pretty quickly, and as such its not a sustainable business model.
Thats not to mention that healthcare again, is a service. Its created to be all-encompassing, and even if an MRI is more expensive in-hospital, your doctor can still highly suggest you do that, and you'll do it. Because you don't know any better, and you probably really don't.
>You will want a good doctor that will actually fix your knee. But you would not want to pay 2x the going rate from a slightly better doctor.
How do you know the quality of the doctor? You don't. You know what the hospital looks like, and how the doctor acts. You have no idea about what they're doing is correct or really what you need. So, yes, actually, people will pay 2x for a better doctor or hospital, because the easy reasoning is 'they'll have to do it once'. The other hospitals may have to do it multiple times, and do unnecessary things because they're just not as experienced, not as funded. It doesn't matter if its true or not, because you don't have access to that information, and neither are individuals who usually think they're knowledged know the complexities of what they're talking about.
>Yes there is guaranteed market for food but that does mean that any given supplier will get that market.
Again, simplifications that don't add up to healthcare. You, your person, is not food. Its not a car. Its not a house. Everything else is replacable. You are not. This is important, because that is the incentive and expectations of the service. Which, again, this is a service, not a product.
>It seems like you are assuming a monopoly or something.
Yes. Healthcare is very monopalistic. It doesn't have to be one monopoly to be a guaranteed market, because this spans the entire U.S. Its like saying Telecoms aren't a monopoly. Sure, not strictly speaking, but effectively you don't get an option. Healthcare is significantly more so, because as I said, its care, you physically need it to survive in many cases. Therefore, it does not matter if the market as a whole, due to the few that have control, increases prices for worse service. You will bend to it, because you have to. That is a guaranteed market.