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To: Alighieri who wrote (704520)	3/16/2013 12:53:32 PM
From: i-node	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 1573033

>> Wouldn't that have the opposite effect? Supply vs demand should drive prices higher in France, no? It is the problem with trying to compare systems like this; there are such radical differences among them that no sensible comparison is possible. It is like trying to compare Exxon's profit margin with Walmart's -- it just makes no sense. A term as simple as "cost" can have vastly different meanings. And the level of government intervention will determine the extent to which normal market influences will work at all. Supply and demand, as in normal economies, doesn't apply to either country's health care system. Medicare and Medicaid are the most important reason US health care costs are so high. I don't know anything about the French system, but I'm quite certain government involvement has corrupted any influence of markets in their system as well. >> I think 1080 is an average. Down here an MRI is closer to $1500.... No one is paying that much (on average). Anywhere in the country, on a net basis. If they are, they deserve it, because they're not even trying.