Imagine you are a young, idealistic doctor.
- After some years in clinical practice at a private hospital you tire of the fact that more of your time is spent filling out forms and attending staff meeting than with your patients
- You decide to branch out and create your own little hospital, employing staff that agree with your ethos and want to offer the quality of care that patients deserve
- Perhaps your little project with serve as a model to the world of how healthcare can be done and people will start copying it
- However, opening a new hospital is harder than you thought it would be
Simple Solutions
- The government limits competition in the medical sphere, driving the price of healthcare through the roof in the United States
- Abolish certificate of need restrictions on the building of private hospitals.
- Allow doctors, clinics, and hospitals to train and certify their own assistants to take responsibilities off the hands of highly specialized staff
- Relax liability standards on professionals particularly when they are acting in a voluntary capacity
- Tackle the complexity of the American medical system by creating fewer barriers to entry and simplifying the process.
https://mises.org/wire/government-regulated-healthcare-there-no-competition-no-competition
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