Introduction

If you're paying for your own meal, you might choose the soup and salad. But if someone else is paying, it's tempting to ask for a lot more. If everyone at the table does this, your host can end up broke and resentful. What happens when we look not at a restaurant, but in a hospital? Many people are under the mistaken impression that they're not really paying for health care because the insurance company is paying for health care. And as a result, i think one of the culprits in our health care riceess ra now is the behaviour of us individually as patients that we we tend to expect that more action is better. We're getting our money's...