With single payer health care, how are prices set? I am asking this purely out of curiosity, and not to try to argue one side of the debate or another.
With an ideal free market there is at least reasonable theory about how price signals will get sellers to produce the goods and services people want. So with single payer, does that payer just work very carefully to make sure the prices they offer for various medicines and services are good enough that enough doctors and hospitals will be willing to do the things that people need done?
With an ideal free market there is at least reasonable theory about how price signals will get sellers to produce the goods and services people want. So with single payer, does that payer just work very carefully to make sure the prices they offer for various medicines and services are good enough that enough doctors and hospitals will be willing to do the things that people need done?