One of the things I learned when I wrote a paper about the history of Medicare and Medicaid for my medical ethics class in med school is that a lot of the byzantine state and federal regulations in health care were instituted for the purpose of consumer protection precisely because of people pushing pseudoscience and quackery #SnakeOil
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American medicine prior to state regulation was basically the demesne of unscrupulous people willing to let you die from untreated disease as you took expensive useless "cures" that made them lots of money.
- Victor Ganata
I realize that there are lots of people who would argue that nothing has really changed since, but, I gotta say, penicillin is a hell of a drug.
- Victor Ganata
But why didn't the Invisible Hand sort out the quacks and con men from the real doctors?
- Andrew C (see frenf.it)
If it weren't for the meddling government…. ;)
- Victor Ganata