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From: cliff@unmvax.UUCP
Newsgroups: net.politics
Subject: Re: The medical industry is not regulated?
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Date: Mon, 18-Feb-85 00:06:27 EST
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> Are you really suggesting that the way to lower health care costs is
> to loosen the standards required to practice medicine?? Considering
> the increase in the rate of malpractice suits, at least some of which
> are actually due to the doctor's incompetence, I find that proposal
> incredible, if not dangerous.
> 
> Marcel Simon

Think about all the activities that you take part in each and every day
that, were someone important to have made foolish decisions, could leave
you dead.  Ever drive a car above 30 miles per hour?  Were the designers
of the car government certified?  Do you know how many people could die
if electricity were to be cut off to large sections of a city because a
computer program failed?  Should all those programmers be government
certified?

	--Cliff