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Selling Expensive Health Care Lemons
Submitted by Persona non grata on Mon, 2013-03-25 00:00
Businesses try to optimize prices and sales in order to maximize revenues. When “consumers” (patients) have little or no information about what they’re buying, Akerlof’s prediction that maximization of profits rather than value will dominate decision-making comes true. In other words, the asymmetry of information between patients (who possess little) and health care providers and administrators (who possess a lot) makes anything like a rational market in health care services impossible.
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