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- From: starr@genie.slhs.udel.edu (Tim Starr)
- Subject: Re: health care industry woes
- Message-ID: <1992Nov20.101333.29734@genie.slhs.udel.edu>
- Organization: UDel, School of Life & Health Sciences
- References: <1ebbl2INNlu1@agate.berkeley.edu> <Bxx9qy.9FE@max.physics.sunysb.edu> <1992Nov18.210922.25246@aio.jsc.nasa.gov>
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- Date: Fri, 20 Nov 1992 10:13:33 GMT
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- In article <1992Nov18.210922.25246@aio.jsc.nasa.gov> hack@arabia.uucp (Edmund Hack) writes:
- }I can't let this bit of folklore go unchallenged. The American Medical
- }Assn. has no direct control of medical licencing, medical education or
- }any other aspect of medical practice. Licences in the US are granted by
- }the states, via their own laws and procedures.
-
- This may be true, but it fails to address the claim that abolishing
- licensure would eliminate the oligopoly effects troubling medicine in the US
- today.
-
- Tim Starr - Renaissance Now! - Think Universally, Act Selfishly
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- "True greatness consists in the use of a powerful understanding to enlighten
- oneself and others." - Voltaire
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