Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/5/84; site psuvax1.UUCP Path: utzoo!linus!decvax!ucbvax!ucdavis!lll-crg!gymble!umcp-cs!seismo!rochester!cmu-cs-pt!cadre!psuvax1!berman From: berman@psuvax1.UUCP (Piotr Berman) Newsgroups: net.politics.theory Subject: Re: Credentials, State vs. private Message-ID: <1789@psuvax1.UUCP> Date: Fri, 13-Sep-85 15:02:13 EDT Article-I.D.: psuvax1.1789 Posted: Fri Sep 13 15:02:13 1985 Date-Received: Mon, 16-Sep-85 07:08:47 EDT References: <152@gargoyle.UUCP> <28200053@inmet.UUCP> <1763@psuvax1.UUCP> <177@batman.UUCP> <1208@ihlpg.UUCP> <107@l5.uucp> Organization: Pennsylvania State Univ. Lines: 28 > > 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