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> But the healthcare industry basically NEVER met the assumptions necessary for a free market to exist in the first place. Has it occurred to you that regulati
by zacharytelschow 11y ago
> But the healthcare industry basically NEVER met the assumptions necessary for a free market to exist in the first place.
Has it occurred to you that regulation might have something to do with that?
- clock_tower 11y agoBut what's the alternative? Even physicians haven't consistently self-regulated -- and if you don't have regulation, you get incompetent amateurs and snake-oil salesmen (like the contemporary sellers of homeopathic cures) passing themselves off as doctors and defrauding the sick.