I’ve had very similar experiences—I’ve become skeptical of any free-market medical system proposal, since you can’t freely choose for cost-optimality when the product is both necessary, heavily time-bound, and likely to be bought while in an impaired state of mind.
It depends completely on how you set up the market. Prediction-based Medicine would allow you to have a free market system that actually aligns the market incentives with health outcomes.
I’ve had very similar experiences—I’ve become skeptical of any free-market medical system proposal, since you can’t freely choose for cost-optimality when the product is both necessary, heavily time-bound, and likely to be bought while in an impaired state of mind.
It depends completely on how you set up the market. Prediction-based Medicine would allow you to have a free market system that actually aligns the market incentives with health outcomes.