Quote:Oversight of a physician sounds GREAT!!!  But then when you look closer, when you mandate that a service has to be provided by the guy with 500k in student loans that went to school for 7 years before doing 5 years of residency you understand why it exponentially increases the cost of getting a routine prescription updated. 

 

Also the greatest mitigating factor for cost is consumer choice.  The current system allows certain state markets to have a single option for service.  That's the death nil for consumers.  Allowing competition across state lines increases the available competition and thus the quality of the product for the consumer.  If you want to have common sense basic regulations then that's fine, but creating 50 artificial monopolies isn't going to help anyone. 

Medical school cost is an issue, and might be one of the factors B2hibry was talking about in an earlier post. I think that any solution that would involve decreasing doctor's incomes would have to take that into account. 

Regarding interstate competition, while I have heard some comments about the competition decreasing cost, I haven't really seen any detailed support for it. Do you have any support for the claim that it is the greatest factor? Also, why didn't it work in Georgia?

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