Lengthy appointment wait times, of course, do not themselves address the waiting-room time once one arrives at his scheduled appointment, where he then sits with others who would rather be spending their time elsewhere than waiting to hear their names called. There clearly does not exist anything remotely resembling a competitive free market in medical education or in the medical industrial-complex generally. It’s enough to make one wonder whether there must be a better way to run a healthcare industry. But a little knowledge of economics can bring about policies whose “cures” are worse than the “disease.”