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Healthcare is probably the most regulated industry in the country.

Nobody knows all the regulations, and asking for a list seems a bit clueless.




If you're going to claim specific problems are caused by regulations is not too much to ask which specific regulations cause specific problems.

What's clueless is to use the word "regulations" like it's some incantation.

Healthcare is heavily regulated because medical care is not usually something you can restitute after the fact. If you sell me a defective widget my life doesn't depend on I can get my money back or sue you to get it back. If a doctor sticks a defective medical widget in my body and I die, I can't really do much about it afterwards.

I'd prefer that doctor's certifications have some sort of regulatory oversight. I'd also like medical widgets to be regulated so there's stringent QA and manufacturing process qualifications.




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