a free-market, as a mediator

A free-market is an (inherent) mediator, to optimize, with a firm'ing wisdom. For example,

If not every hospital is dying to contain everything, if for example, a firm may do MRI, every medic would forward every MRI-needing patient, there.

Next, if another firm may want to do MRI, they may (probably) not found it at that town/city - unless the MRI is very busy. This is free-market.

I have thought of this example, when I read a few Newsweek (mid-1994) articles, about welfare-reform. An article, titled "Remember Cost Control" (July25,1994), contrasted USA vs. Canada and to quote a sentence: "There are more MRIs in Atlanta, than all of Canada." (That article suggested that USA is more biased to high-tech, expensive options.)

Another article, titled "With or without you" (Aug.15,1994), referred to the cost-reduction, when two hospitals in a city, merge - and there was an MRI example in it, too. To optimize the cost, then, every hospital must merge! (That may please the socialists, but it is a nightmare for a free-market.)

Therefore, I infer that, we would have the finest remedy, if we take it at the finest level. i.e: Let every resource to work in the free-market, and let them infirmaze with other infirmazer-people. An infirmazer-rep (cf. an M.D.) may tell the patient where the MRI, or CT is. It is only the taxi - not tax. And if the free-market people, as expected, may optimize the location, then even the taxi is less often needed. The (right-type of) test-center (MRI, blood-test, etc.) is next to (or, among) where it is needed, most.

To firm a (yet another) function-firm, is the firmaze way, for any needed function. It is the inherent-remedy, to avoid those duplicate-expenses, too. No need to pile a giant of a tax-state, or a giant-corp, if a taxi may win. Let people prefer, with their own.

winner, at a finer level

It does not end with cost-optimization. Here are a few other bonuses, with freedom,

• a medic is not chained to the (non-optimal) technicians in "their hospital"
• if not pleased of the lab at their city, he/she may even offer the patients the extra option to visit a lab, in another city.
• for most services, a "laptop" lab (in a vehicle) may patrol every town in the region. Have your test, in front of your door. People know them with their reputation, not with their building. Their contact-office (or, www web-page) may forward them.
• when a wealthier town may buy an improved technology, that old function-firm may visit at other. (No need to do inter-hospital purchase/sale.) Although that function-firm, with all of its technicians, may leave that old technology (thereby, sell the machine), that is not the necessity - with the fine firm-modularity. It is their preference of an alternative..

Further Reading

R-world is with freedom. This page pointed out the affinity (inherent tendency), of a free-market, for mediating a (regional) resource, to optimize the finance. A road is another example.