--- Doug Henwood <dhenwood at panix.com> wrote:
>
> Yeah, with insurance companies second-guessing
> everything, with huge
> administrative overhead, no monopsony buying power
> by the gov to push
> costs down, etc.
>
[WS:] Monopsony is not a guarnatee of power and
control, especially if the monoposonist himself is
controlled by interest groups through political means.
I'd say that given the enormous power of US business and its lobbyists, and the weak public opposition, pluralism makes it a bit more dificult for these lobbyist to control the system.
Wojtek
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