Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.1 6/24/83; site alice.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!cbosgd!ihnp4!mhuxn!mhuxb!mhuxr!ulysses!allegra!alice!ark From: ark@alice.UUCP (Andrew Koenig) Newsgroups: net.politics Subject: The medical industry is not regulated? Message-ID: <3374@alice.UUCP> Date: Thu, 7-Feb-85 21:52:42 EST Article-I.D.: alice.3374 Posted: Thu Feb 7 21:52:42 1985 Date-Received: Sat, 9-Feb-85 05:52:13 EST References: <241@mhuxr.UUCP> Organization: Bell Labs, Murray Hill Lines: 10 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.