my instinct is that the price subsidy was probably a government intervention that was thought up to address unintended consequences of prior interventions, those original interventions are responsible for increasing the private clinic's cost up higher and higher. the government then decides to intervene on the behalf of medical customers at the expense of the general tax base.
make sense?
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