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June 27th, 2009 | #13 | |
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The problem isn't "government". Governement is not intrinsically good or bad. It is what government rewards and what purposes it serves that make it so. The libertarian solution that you are championing disregards the complexity of medicine which can not (should not) be sold to the people like competing brands of soft drinks. Even professionals in complementary fields like surgery and medical oncology can not agree on treatment decisions in many cases, let alone the general public. What we need to remember is what medicine was like before the Flexner report and the regulation of medical practice. It was essentially quackery on a large scale. The fast talking, hand-holding, advertisement savvy, warm fuzzy family physician holding a diploma from some online diploma-mill medical school sure to arise in such a deregulated environment will be sure to garner more patients than honest practitioners. No American would be well-served by the massive deregulation you seem to favor. |
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