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...system claim that if the number of doctors were to increase because of a relaxation of government regulations, the quality of doctors and the care they provided would suffer. But certification does not necessarily equal quality. A slight slip of the scalpel can occur even to a board-certified physician. Likewise, a degree from a newer medical school does not preclude high performance...
Doctors would still be able to receive private certification that illustrated the level of studies they had completed. Thus, they could demonstrate that their training was equal to any AMA-certified physician. In addition, many levels of certification would open up above and beneath this level...
Free market health care might very well mean a poorer person would not be able to afford the best physician. However, as Milton Friedman argued in Free to Choose, why shouldn't people receive the services of the Chevrolet of the medical profession simply because they cannot pay for Cadillacs...
...been failing for some time. With the end near, the President's 82-year-old father-in-law was admitted to St. Vincent's hospital in Little Rock, where he remained until he died three weeks later. "There was really nothing to do for him," says an Arkansas physician familiar with the case. "He would normally have been discharged after a week because that's all the treatment Medicare would cover for someone in his condition, but he stayed on because of who he was. The hospital ate the bill, about...
...executed, and doctors are often reluctant to act even when the document is in order, lest a relative sue. "And even if the family bows to the patient's wishes as expressed in the will, it often takes days or weeks to get agreement," says Stephen Sullivan, a physician on the clinical faculty at Stanford University Hospital, "during which time costs continue to rise...