Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/18/84; site dciem.UUCP Path: utzoo!dciem!mmt From: mmt@dciem.UUCP (Martin Taylor) Newsgroups: net.politics Subject: Re: The medical industry is not regulated? Message-ID: <1395@dciem.UUCP> Date: Thu, 14-Feb-85 17:30:24 EST Article-I.D.: dciem.1395 Posted: Thu Feb 14 17:30:24 1985 Date-Received: Thu, 14-Feb-85 19:12:51 EST References: <243@mhuxr.UUCP>Reply-To: mmt@dciem.UUCP (Martin Taylor) Organization: D.C.I.E.M., Toronto, Canada Lines: 24 Summary: >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. Specifically, >one needs a license to practice medicine. In order to qualify for that >license, you must go through a government-approved course of study. >Since the people who determine the nature of that course of study >are all license-holders themselves, they have a vested interest >in making it as difficult as possible for others to obtain their >licenses, so as to minimize competition. You wouldn't make a claim like this if you had any connection with an institution that trains physicians. And I don't mean that the connection would automatically turn you into a liar, either. For an eye-opening view of what it takes to train a physician, or what it takes to be trained, find the issue of the Johns Hopkins Magazine that featured the topic, about a year ago. -- Martin Taylor {allegra,linus,ihnp4,floyd,ubc-vision}!utzoo!dciem!mmt {uw-beaver,qucis,watmath}!utcsrgv!dciem!mmt