Emergency care is only about 2-8% of healthcare costs. Most of what we spend on healthcare is for chronic conditions that you have for years, decades, or your lifetime.<p>@waynemr&#x27;s comment gets it right -- the real issue is that prices are secret in healthcare, and quality metrics are nonstandardized, so there&#x27;s no information on which to base your decision.<p>The Affordable Care Act is laying some of the groundwork for healthcare markets. For example, look at the experiments in bundled pricing that CMS is starting:
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