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by white-flame 3190 days ago
> This would increase access and competition among providers, and avoid rent-seeking kinds of economic problems in the health care market.

That would also incentivize increasing total substance use to make a profit, just like for-profit prisons create an incentive to increase the incarceration rate to make a profit. Any checks you make against use (like those competency tests) would be undermined by that incentive.