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"My main point was to keep my kid alive." So says the father of a six-year-old girl with cancer in @vikkiortiztrib's gut-punch of a story about "cancer-related financial toxicity." chicagotribune.com/lifestyles/ct-… Here's is a THREAD about what I learned: 1/8
It is long past time to abandon the delusion that the "market" for health care can or should operate like a market for any other consumer good. It's long past time to let go of the delusion that we can fix things by somehow "empowering" people to be better "consumers."2/8
The cherished fantasy of a "market" in which "health care consumers" make rational economic choices: that woefully common policy fetish generates more than wildly incoherent (and grotesquely profitable) health policy—though it certainly generates plenty of that. Kicker: 3/8
