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From: ark@alice.UUCP (Andrew Koenig)
Newsgroups: net.politics
Subject: The medical industry is not regulated?
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Date: Thu, 7-Feb-85 21:52:42 EST
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Posted: Thu Feb  7 21:52:42 1985
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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.