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: <250@mhuxr.UUCP> Date: Wed, 13-Feb-85 17:07:33 EST Article-I.D.: mhuxr.250 Posted: Wed Feb 13 17:07:33 1985 Date-Received: Thu, 14-Feb-85 02:12:47 EST References: <248@mhuxr.UUCP> <3383@alice.UUCP> Organization: AT&T Bell Laboratories, Murray Hill Lines: 16 > : Andrew Koenig > > I am not suggesting that the way to lower health care costs is to > deregulate the medical industry -- I am stating it outright. > > The number of malpractice suits is clear evidence that the licensing > system does not prevent incompetents from practicing medicine. > In fact, I claim it makes it somewhat easier, because it provides > the gullible with a substitute for reputation. So you would solve that problem by making it easier still for incompetents to practice medicine? Do you expect that incompetent doctors will somehow vanish or be forced into line by the AMA? Curiouser and curiouser. Marcel Simon