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by ceejayoz 3633 days ago
We tried that, for centuries.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Snake_oil https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Medicine_show https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Patent_medicine

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There is a huge difference between preventing fraud and what we have today, and you know that.
The differences largely result from stuff like that fraud, ethics failures, and other issues we've run into in the past.

Just like Bitcoiners rediscovered the reasons our financial system has the various moving parts it does, healthcare regulations tend to have good reasons behind them.