Marketized Health Care: Some Horrible Choices at the Margin

When I was in grad school in England, one of the dorms had a radiator that required the user to insert pound coins into a slot for heat. I found this bizarre at the time. . . but perhaps it will be a model for hospitals soon. As an article entitled "Cash Before Chemo" suggests, IV drips may as well include credit card readers in some hospitals: [For the effectively uninsured Mrs. Kelly,] [c]hemotherapy would continue for more than a year, as would requests for upfront payments. At times, she a