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On Fri, 31 Dec 2004, Alan Gutierrez wrote: > > You must have a sparkling health plan, my friend, because in has > been my experience with medicine, especially, that has taught me > the meaning of Caveat Emptor. It could be worse. When licensing of doctors was abolished in the US in the mid-1800's it _was_ worse: <URL:http://www.cl.utoledo.edu/canaday/quackery/quack2.html> <URL:http://www.cl.utoledo.edu/canaday/quackery/quack10.html> And I would contend that the current HMO led fiasco's are an example of a return to the practice of medicine by the unlicensed: HMO's are not required to have licensed doctors make their treatment 'allowed/not allowed' decisions nor are they legally liable for bad decisions beyond the cost of the denied treatment. Not even if you die because of it. > Hmm... Maybe if you'd used lawyers as an example. Hmmm... -- Benjamin Franz "All right, where is the answer? The battle of wits has begun. It ends when you click and we both serve pages - and find out who is right, and who is slashdotted." - David Brandt
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