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by mrbluecoat 532 days ago
> if we knew about it, then we have to ask: ‘Where are the regulators? Where are the people who should’ve known better?

Profiting.

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>Nationally, this equates to $38.6 billion each year to comply with the administrative aspects of regulatory compliance in just these nine domains. Looked at in another way, regulatory burden costs $1,200 every time a patient is admitted to a hospital.

https://www.aha.org/guidesreports/2017-11-03-regulatory-over...

And it's still this much of a mess! It's almost like you can't regulate sanity into a for-profit healthcare system.
You can regulate away healthy competition though.