From an article in the Atlantic a couple of years back (but the song remains the same).
“I used to joke that I could just take all my papers and statistical programs and globally replace hospitals with schools, doctors with teachers and patients with students,” says Dartmouth College’s Douglas Staiger, one of the few U.S. economists who studies both education and health care.
Both systems are more market driven than in just about any other country, which makes them more innovative—but also less coherent and more exploitive.
State cutbacks did not necessarily make colleges more efficient, which was the hope; they made colleges more entrepreneurial.
Why Is College in America So Expensive? – The Atlantic
You can even get a degree in this sort of behaviour, now: ouroboros studies.