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<p>[QUOTE="-jeffB, post: 2876894, member: 27832"]There's not competition among colleges and universities?</p><p><br /></p><p>My take is that the stuff going up most sharply is the stuff where <i>customer choice is least coupled to price</i>. In education, you just cover everything with a student loan; it makes little difference in the moment whether you're running up $40K or $60K per year, it's just something you'll figure on paying down forever at whatever you can afford per month. (Textbooks, on the other hand, are definitely a controlled market -- you're told which ones you need, and there's only one source for each.)</p><p><br /></p><p>In healthcare, routine expenditures hide behind copays and zero-copay services. And for medical emergencies, you're going to go bankrupt anyhow, so why not go bankrupt over $3M of the best care money can buy, instead of $300K of bare-bones care?[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="-jeffB, post: 2876894, member: 27832"]There's not competition among colleges and universities? My take is that the stuff going up most sharply is the stuff where [I]customer choice is least coupled to price[/I]. In education, you just cover everything with a student loan; it makes little difference in the moment whether you're running up $40K or $60K per year, it's just something you'll figure on paying down forever at whatever you can afford per month. (Textbooks, on the other hand, are definitely a controlled market -- you're told which ones you need, and there's only one source for each.) In healthcare, routine expenditures hide behind copays and zero-copay services. And for medical emergencies, you're going to go bankrupt anyhow, so why not go bankrupt over $3M of the best care money can buy, instead of $300K of bare-bones care?[/QUOTE]
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