Skeeter,
I'm going to get a bad reputation agreeing with you, but I've been making the same argument re not counting the costs with healthcare.
I believe that artificially regulating the supply of doctors through licensing has extreme costs, that aren't measured.
Take if you will a scenario where anyone can perform surgery etc. Sure, "x" people will be maimed, and killed, but what's not counted is the number who die now through an imperfectly balanced supply and demand curve.
Example, go to any emergency room and see how many people might be saved if every emergency room had lightspeed scanners. My contention is that if the market were free, the cost of those machines would decrease and hence, lives would be saved.
It's hard to compare the numbers (since unlicensed doctors is a road not travelled) but I don't think anyone can deny there is some cost to our current system. Since I have a prior examples of current and past government programs, and regulation, I'd have to guess that almost always the cost is higher than the benefit.
Richard |
