:Waiting lists develop in countries (like Canada and England) where the government prohibits anyone from charging more than fixed prices for medical services, assuming that these fixed prices are lower than what the prices would be under supply and demand in the free market, because the demand is greater then the supply. More people would be able to afford medical treatments, but the doctors wouldn't make as much money so they wouldn't do as many of the treatments so waiting lists would develop. Also people wouldn't want to be doctors because it wouldn't pay as much as it did before the law was passed. (Seth) | :Waiting lists develop in countries (like Canada and England) where the government prohibits anyone from charging more than fixed prices for medical services, assuming that these fixed prices are lower than what the prices would be under supply and demand in the free market, because the demand is greater then the supply. More people would be able to afford medical treatments, but the doctors wouldn't make as much money so they wouldn't do as many of the treatments so waiting lists would develop. Also people wouldn't want to be doctors because it wouldn't pay as much as it did before the law was passed. (Seth) |