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From: berman@psuvax1.UUCP (Piotr Berman)
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Subject: Re: Credentials, State vs. private
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Date: Fri, 13-Sep-85 15:02:13 EDT
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> 
> There is nothing in Libertaria which says that you shouldn't get the doctor
> that you want who went ot the medical school of your choice. All you have to
> do is hire *that* doctor rather than some other doctor. What it will do is
> to get rid of the fiction that all doctors are created equal, and make it
> clear to people that they are going to have to do the same level of research
> in selecting a doctor that they already do to select a car or a television.
> 
> I consider that a good thing.
> 
> -- 
> Laura Creighton		(note new address!)
> sun!l5!laura		(that is ell-five, not fifteen)
> l5!laura@lll-crg.arpa

I do not consider that a good thing.  When I am ill, I do not have the time
to look for a doctor, certainly not as much of time as in the case of a car.
Also, the potential damage of a wrong choice is much larger.

You assume that a citizen of Libertaria has a lot of information and
sophistication.  He/she decides without help of the state whether
doctors are good, whether banks/insurance companies have good financial
standing, whether a given ingredient of some food you are want to eat
may be harmful, etc.  Before the age of state regulations, citizens
were never sure of those things, and frequently they were paying
dearly for this.

Piotr Berman