It was a dying wish of Brittany Maynard, after terminal cancer led her to maneuver to Portland so she could legally end her life, that her dwelling state of California would someday undertake Oregon’s dying-with-dignity law.

The hospitals’ argument has some merit: easier surgical instances (the sort specialty clinics typically tackle) are usually extra worthwhile than complicated surgeries and nonsurgical admissions. With out those profitable circumstances, hospitals can’t subsidize the instances on which they lose money. But why are simple surgical procedures extra profitable? Due to the nonmarket methods by which Medicare sets prices.

In 2002, the U.S. had nearly six instances as many CT scanners per capita as Germany and four times as many MRI machines as the U.K. Conventional reformers imagine it’s this charge of investment that has pushed up prices, slightly than sustained high costs that have pushed up funding. As a result, many states now require …