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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
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Posted: Wed Feb 13 09:05:44 1985
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> 
> 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