> > Is this what people want, the cheapest possible health care? A recent Economist article (June 30 2007) titled "An Unhealthy Burden" and citing research from Duke University, the Pacific Research Institute and the Cato Institute claimed that Health Care is one of America's most heavily regulated industries and that the "muddled approach to health care regulation" amounted to "a $169 billion dollar tax". The article went on to say that the heavy handedness includes groups of surgeons being denied permission to open specialist clinics because "rival one-size-fits-all hospitals invoke state regulations protecting their patch"; and that "enterprising nurse practitioners are blocked from offering simple treatments at inexpensive clinics by state rules requiring costly supervision by doctors". The article ends by stating that the US health care system "is merely masquerading as a free-market model and may be no better than others". Clearly not a model for the rest of the world to follow. Graham.
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