| I will keep making the case that violating people's right to engage in voluntary interactions with other consenting adults, is always wrong. The Quakers spent centuries arguing against slavery, and were in the extreme minority for most of that period. Progress sometimes takes time. I think healthcare would benefit from legalizing the provision of medical service by un-certified individuals, as well as providing more than one tier of certification, where people who can't afford fully certified practitioners, but would like the assurance of some certification, have that option. Instead of making it illegal for individuals who don't possess full certification to practice medicine, the law could instead require medical practitioners to disclose their level of certification, and any warnings the state provides in relation to that. So for example, an uncertified doctor/nurse may be required to disclose not only that they are uncertified, but also the warning that the state strongly advises against using uncertified medical practitioners. Why providing these options is critically important is that sometimes the prescribed institutions fail, and an escape hatch is a life saver. Take this case of a woman in Canada who had to wait two years to get a test that diagnosed her with cancer, because of a shortage of state-licensed doctors: https://www.cbc.ca/news/health/doctor-shortage-cancer-video-... Society has imposed heavy regulations on the most important industries, and the result is that the most important industries are the most dysfunctional: https://www.aei.org/carpe-diem/chart-of-the-day-or-century-3... Look at what regulations have done to healthcare in the US for example: https://www.athenahealth.com/knowledge-hub/practice-manageme... >>Here's some food for thought: The number of physicians in the United States grew 150 percent between 1975 and 2010, roughly in keeping with population growth, while the number of healthcare administrators increased 3,200 percent for the same time period. * >>Supporters say the growing number of administrators is needed to keep pace with the drastic changes in healthcare delivery during that timeframe, particularly change driven by technology and by ever-more-complex regulations. (To cite just a few industry-disrupting regulations, consider the Prospective Payment System of 1983 [1]; the Health Insurance Portability & Accountability Act of 1996 [2]; and the Health Information Technology for Economic and Clinical Act of 2009. [3]) [1] https://www.cms.gov/Medicare/Medicare-Fee-for-Service-Paymen... [2] https://www.hhs.gov/hipaa/for-professionals/privacy/laws-reg... [3] https://www.hhs.gov/hipaa/for-professionals/special-topics/h... |