When companies like water utility companies have unfair advantages, because of the nature of their monopoly, the best way to protect the consumer from extortionist practices is regulation. The regulatory protection is in place to prevent the monopoly from charging exorbitant prices for a necessary server, so the regulation actually reduces the cost of providing the service and the cost to the consumer of obtaining the service. In cases where monopolistic advantage is not inherent, the invisible hand of competition prove more than adequate to keep cost and prices under control.
I believe the health care industry has taken on many of the characteristics of a monopoly, and thus should be either regulated, or forced into a more competitive environment. Regards, LelandJ [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >> Regulation of Electric and Water Companies does not increase the cost to >> consumer. >> > > Everything the government does increases the cost to the consumer... not to > mention the favoritism involved in doling out 'public' benefits. > > -- > Larry Miller > > --- StripMime Report -- processed MIME parts --- > multipart/mixed > multipart/alternative > text/plain (text body -- kept) > text/html > message/rfc822 > --- > [excessive quoting removed by server] _______________________________________________ Post Messages to: [email protected] Subscription Maintenance: http://leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profox OT-free version of this list: http://leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profoxtech Searchable Archive: http://leafe.com/archives/search/profox This message: http://leafe.com/archives/byMID/profox/[EMAIL PROTECTED] ** All postings, unless explicitly stated otherwise, are the opinions of the author, and do not constitute legal or medical advice. This statement is added to the messages for those lawyers who are too stupid to see the obvious.
