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Sure. A lot of medicine is pretty much a simple service business, economically. You are paying for the services of a person. These tend to be very locally priced.

But.... Medicine is not really an ordinary market, most places. It's not really a market in the US and Europe, in the sense that prices are set like other services. A big determinant of costs tends to be how well the system works.




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