Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/17/84; site mhuxr.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!mhuxr!mfs From: mfs@mhuxr.UUCP (SIMON) Newsgroups: net.politics Subject: Re: The medical industry is not regulated? Message-ID: <248@mhuxr.UUCP> Date: Wed, 13-Feb-85 09:05:44 EST Article-I.D.: mhuxr.248 Posted: Wed Feb 13 09:05:44 1985 Date-Received: Thu, 14-Feb-85 01:41:39 EST References: <243@mhuxr.UUCP> <3381@alice.UUCP> Organization: AT&T Bell Laboratories, Murray Hill Lines: 16 > > The claim that medical fees are not regulated is also false. While > the government does not set doctors' fees directly (yet), those fees > are kept artificially high by government regulations that make it > artificially difficult for people to become physicians. > > Restrict supply, and up goes the price. > Are you really suggesting that the way to lower health care costs is to loosen the standards required to practice medicine?? Considering the increase in the rate of malpractice suits, at least some of which are actually due to the doctor's incompetence, I find that proposal incredible, if not dangerous. Marcel Simon