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To: Maurice Winn who wrote (204313)	9/25/2006 5:24:30 PM
From: geode00	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 281500

Most of the money I do spend I believe is due to the medical guild cartel keeping the supply of medical services tighter than oil supplies. Here, that would be the AMA which has been successfully monopolizing medicine for 100 years. Boot the AMA and its lobbying, boot private insurance companies and their lobbying, negotiate prices for drugs, go after doctors and drug companies when they commit malpractice and stupidity and, zoing, healthcare becomes widely available and affordable. Oh yeah, stop subsidizing food stuffs that promote obesity, diabetes and who knows what other kinds of chronic conditions and start subsidizing locally grown green veggies.

To: Maurice Winn who wrote (204313)	9/26/2006 5:12:08 PM
From: Ilaine	Respond to of 281500

Deregulate the medical guild and costs will plummet to human levels. Depends on the regulation. There was a front page scandal this summer caused by the death of a woman from liposuction performed by non-physicians operating out of their basements. If the operation had been performed in a hospital, the woman probably could have been saved. wtopnews.com Hospitals intent on covering their own assets refuse to allow unlicensed doctors to have staff privileges, even without the "guild" you speak of. I worked on a medical malpractice case where a hospital refused to give a local physician staff privileges because they did not think he was adequately trained. Lo and behold, one of his patients died due to incompetent medical care (she exfoliated as a result of Allopurinol, a rare but well documented side effect which he treated as dermatitis until she died from septicemia. The manufacturer of Allopurinol states that it should be discontinued in the event of skin rash. Instead, he increased the dosage.) The medical guild didn't save her, but I fail to see how deregulating the education and certification of physicians would have been beneficial to her health. We need fewer lemons, not more.