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There are costs to placing industry decision-making predominantly in the hands of the sellers or suppliers of goods and services. There are costs to constraining market relations by employers making health care decisions for consumers or the buyers. There are also unintended consequences of the HIA related to the development of uneconomical physician practice styles and increased expenditures for unnecessary services and defensive medicine, unrelated to health status outcomes.