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main problem: if you are planning to open up a healthcare center in the united states you must prove that you will not compete with any others. thank governmen

• genericone 6y ago
  I've never heard this reasoning before, are you saying the reason competitive healthcare services/pricing doesn't exist is because competing healthcare providers within a region are disallowed?
  • rogerbinns 6y ago
    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Certificate_of_need https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Certificate_of_need It has been law in many states starting in the 1960's. The original intention was to prevent too much competition which could skew incentives.
    • alistairSH 6y ago
      Yup. We basically built a worst-of-all-options* system in the US. It's not free market. And it's not fully socialized. * From the perspective of an average consumer. It's a brilliant system if you're in a position to profit off it. And it has resulted in the best health care in the world (for those who can afford it).
    • hyperdimension 6y ago
      I've heard of that requirement before (of course the artifical limiting of the numbers of doctors able to start practicing every year is somewhat a similar type of practice,) but I'd be curious to see what the original rationale for the Certificate of Need program was. Is '[too much] competition' not supposedly the bedrock of our Wonderful System of Market Capitalism?
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