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: <243@mhuxr.UUCP> Date: Tue, 12-Feb-85 11:53:48 EST Article-I.D.: mhuxr.243 Posted: Tue Feb 12 11:53:48 1985 Date-Received: Wed, 13-Feb-85 03:54:14 EST References: <241@mhuxr.UUCP> <3374@alice.UUCP> Organization: AT&T Bell Laboratories, Murray Hill Lines: 18 > 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. What I meant, and did not make sufficiently clear, is that the medical industry's FEES are not regulated. This contrasts with, say, Canada Britain and other countries. Note the howls of protests from the medical industry against the government's efforts to impose some regulations on medical costs, in an effort to reduce the cost of medical insurance for all and for the government in particular (medicare)