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From: mfs@mhuxr.UUCP (SIMON)
Newsgroups: net.politics
Subject: Re: The medical industry is not regulated?
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Date: Tue, 12-Feb-85 11:53:48 EST
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> Marcel Simon claims the medical industry is not regulated.
> That claim is simply false.  If you doubt me, try setting
> yourself up a medical practice without government permission.
> Or try to buy a drug that the government doesn't like,
> such as Laetrile.  Or even one that they do, such as
> penicillin.
> 
> Or consider that the government will permit only one surgeon
> to implant artificial hearts.  Or consider the government's
> increasingly active role in mandating hospital accounting systems.

What I meant, and did not make sufficiently clear, is that the medical
industry's FEES are not regulated. This contrasts with, say, Canada
Britain and other countries. Note the howls of protests from the
medical industry against the government's efforts to impose
some regulations on medical costs, in an effort to reduce the cost
of medical insurance for all and for the government in particular
(medicare)