If you don't believe me, run the cost projections yourself. The system will collapse in 10 to 15 years (sooner if Obamacare passes) if something major doesn't change.
The problems with our healtcare system have NOTHING to do with the fact that we require medical licenses for physicians.
It has everything to do with the fact that it is a monopoly. That is what licensing creates by definition.
The medical industry is not a “monopoly”. There are thousands and thousands of different providers, operating independently of one another.
They most definitely are not independent, they are all licensed. Licensing restricts the numbers of providers. Can you go to an unlicensed doctor and get a prescription for a drug? Licensing creates a barrier to competition, creating a monopoly.
d) Can you please cite the law that says it is a felony to order a lab test for oneself?
Texas Occupational Code 165.152. PRACTICING MEDICINE IN VIOLATION OF SUBTITLE... Every State has similar laws.
Sheesh LeGrande, the end must be near. I actually agree with you about something.
You should look up the definition of “monopoly”.
All industries have barriers to entry, but that does not make them “monopolies”. Do all doctors charge exactly the same fees? Do they compete for patients, or do all the doctors in the country put all their earnings in a big pool and share it equally?
Also, in professions that require a high degree of skill, and where lack of that skill will result and in great harm and death to individuals, licensing is an appropriate and necessary barrier to entry. Unqualified, dangerous individuals offering their services in a market, do not help the market, but harm it.
I suppose airline pilots are a “monopoly” as well. Anyone should be allowed to fly a commerical airliner, regardless of lack of training, right? It is to each passenger to determine if the fellows in the cockpit really know how to fly a plane, before boarding, correct?