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From: ark@alice.UucP (Andrew Koenig)
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Subject: Re: Credentials, State vs. private
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Date: Tue, 17-Sep-85 11:04:45 EDT
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> 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.

They still are.  Regulations or not, half of all doctors are below
the median!  There is NOTHING you can ever do to change this!
And regulations that allow physicians to avoid competing with
each other make it easier, not harder, for an incompetent to stay
in business.