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From: david@fisher.UUCP (David Rubin)
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Subject: Re: A Fact for Milo!
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Date: Wed, 14-Nov-84 08:41:09 EST
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As an indirectly insulted party in Milo's last article, allow me a few
remarks on my "AMA analogy".  I did not say that doctors were
intentionally ignoring cures (though they have a strong preference for
expensive ones).  However, if Milo thinks the AMA has not been
pursuing policies designed to LIMIT the number of doctors in order to
preserve their own economic and social standing, and to insulate their
practices from outside scrutiny (doctors have this thing about
lawyers), then I'd suggest he think again.  My analogy goes as far as
to say that any group, given exclusive regulation over itself, will
pursue secondary goals of influence and material well-being, even at
the expense of the primary goal (which in the case of doctors would be
cruing ailments).

						David Rubin