"AN AMERICAN SICKNESS: How Healthcare Became Big Business and How You Can Take It Back." (2017) by Dr. Elisabeth Rosenthal. 

Excerpt: "As Rosenthal describes American health care, it’s not really a market; it’s more like a protection racket--tolerated only because so many different institutions are chipping in to cover the extortionary bill and, because our lives are on the line.  Rosenthal sums up these differences in ten “economic rules of the dysfunctional medical market.”

"Some are obvious: #9: “There’s money to be made in billing for anything and everything”; some humorous: #2: “A lifetime of treatment is preferable to a cure”.  But #10 is the big one: Prices will rise to whatever the market will bear.”  

"To Rosenthal, that’s the answer to Scalia’s question. The health care market doesn’t work like other markets because “what the market will bear” is vastly greater than what a well-functioning market should bear."  

www.nytimes.com/2017/04/04/books/review/an-american-sickness