You have a need that the customer (patient) needs to fill with a product (medical care).
The problem is, if the customer doesn't get the need fullfilled within the next 10 minutes they die of cardiac arrest. Or worse, the customer is already in cardiac arrest and requires resuscitation.
An unconsicous customer can't make market decisions.
So now we get to the next stage, a hospital revives/saves the patient but they are unconscious for a few days in the ICU.
The patient can hardly walk away while being non-responsive or later when drugged up on painkillers so they don't scream all the time.
By the time a patient can leave a hospital without dying the hospital has likely already spent 90% of the money that would be spent if the patient stayed for a few days more to recover.
But is it free market to bill the patient for actions taken while they were non-responsive or not even consented too (because they were non-responsive and/or dying)?
IMO the answer is simple; free markets don't exist. They are an ideal construct similar to how a bouncy ball should mathematically bounce forever but doesn't. And especially in healthcare there are too many interfering patterns for a free market to actually exist. In other markets, you could make a free market because people could pick and choose and compare and consent (ie, buying logs of wood for your fireplace). But dying people can't participate in the market to not die freely.
I also advice against superglue for wounds, the stuff can be toxic and/or nasty and will likely lead to an infection. There are some natural glues that your body produces to stitch wounds and you can obtain them in your supermarket, though they aren't clean enough that I would consider them fit for that use either.
You have a need that the customer (patient) needs to fill with a product (medical care).
The problem is, if the customer doesn't get the need fullfilled within the next 10 minutes they die of cardiac arrest. Or worse, the customer is already in cardiac arrest and requires resuscitation.
An unconsicous customer can't make market decisions.
So now we get to the next stage, a hospital revives/saves the patient but they are unconscious for a few days in the ICU.
The patient can hardly walk away while being non-responsive or later when drugged up on painkillers so they don't scream all the time.
By the time a patient can leave a hospital without dying the hospital has likely already spent 90% of the money that would be spent if the patient stayed for a few days more to recover.
But is it free market to bill the patient for actions taken while they were non-responsive or not even consented too (because they were non-responsive and/or dying)?
IMO the answer is simple; free markets don't exist. They are an ideal construct similar to how a bouncy ball should mathematically bounce forever but doesn't. And especially in healthcare there are too many interfering patterns for a free market to actually exist. In other markets, you could make a free market because people could pick and choose and compare and consent (ie, buying logs of wood for your fireplace). But dying people can't participate in the market to not die freely.
I also advice against superglue for wounds, the stuff can be toxic and/or nasty and will likely lead to an infection. There are some natural glues that your body produces to stitch wounds and you can obtain them in your supermarket, though they aren't clean enough that I would consider them fit for that use either.