Comments on: Where the Market for Plastic Surgery Doesn’t Work http://healthblog.ncpa.org/market-for-plastic-surgery/ Health Care Policy and Reform Insights | NCPA Thu, 24 May 2012 19:54:25 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.2 By: Neil H. http://healthblog.ncpa.org/market-for-plastic-surgery/comment-page-1/#comment-40261 Neil H. Fri, 02 Jan 2009 16:10:04 +0000 http://www.john-goodman-blog.com/?p=1593#comment-40261 Joe, the problem is not so much the third-party payer as it is the inability of the doctor to freely price his/her services. When doctors deal directly with paying patients, they can set any price the market will bear for their services. In that case, there is no perverse incentive to conceal procedures patients would have been willing to pay for. Joe, the problem is not so much the third-party payer as it is the inability of the doctor to freely price his/her services.

When doctors deal directly with paying patients, they can set any price the market will bear for their services. In that case, there is no perverse incentive to conceal procedures patients would have been willing to pay for.

]]> By: Joe S. http://healthblog.ncpa.org/market-for-plastic-surgery/comment-page-1/#comment-40257 Joe S. Fri, 02 Jan 2009 15:06:59 +0000 http://www.john-goodman-blog.com/?p=1593#comment-40257 There is a simple lesson here: When patients pay for their own care, providers compete to meet patient needs. When third parties pay, providers satisfy their own needs. There is a simple lesson here: When patients pay for their own care, providers compete to meet patient needs. When third parties pay, providers satisfy their own needs.

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