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Gold-Plated Health Care
The Mahablog — ... One of the most persistent myths on the Right is that health care is too expensive because we are indulging ourselves with too much of it. The persistently stupid Jeff Jacoby writes in today’s Boston Globe, ...

Reducing medical over-consumption
The Reality-Based Community — ... Jeff Jacoby points out in a Boston Globe op-ed that our current health care system encourages patients to overconsume medical care. No doubt the usual bleeding hearts will criticize him, but Jacoby is entirely right. I know from personal experience. When I had cancer, I never negotiated prices with my oncologist; I just took the treatment I was offered. No doubt if I'd been paying first dollar I could have pushed for a discount. After all, people with mortal illnesses have great bargaining power. Did I really need those expensive blood-growth factors? Or that last round of ...