Medical Regulations

Wow. I didn't read it all because I already agree with you. I read some and appreciate all the hard work. I hope others do as well.

Thanks.

I know I went into a bit more detail than I usually do, but as I said at the beginning either you already agree or I have quite a fight on my hands. So I figured it was better to go into too much detail rather than too little.

As it is an issue on which many otherwise libertarian sorts think government regulation is justified, I didn't want to write too little and leave them asking "Is that it?"

Thanks for the comments and please come back again. You may also find earlier posts interesting. A lot are more general interest rather than writing on contemporary issues, so they age pretty well. (OK, some of my election articles did become rather dated quickly, but the rest are less prone to becoming outdated.)

Andrews: As you may know, this is a subject near and dear to my heart. I do not pretend to know everything there is to know (who could?), but I do like to read the views of others.

I began reading this on the monitor but then realized I could not read fast enough to justify staying in front of this thing so long. Therefore I'm printing it out and may have a comment or two.

Thanks for what appears to me to be one very scholarly paper.

I think I would write parts differently if I went back to do it gain, but I am generally happy with what I wrote.

Of course, this is my ideal. In practice, I still stand by my federalist beliefs, and would leave it up to the states. I just would hope at least one state would try deregulation to see what the benefits were.

As with the spread of concealed carry laws, I would hope medical deregulation would slowly spread from state to state as the benefits became obvious.

Then again, I often despair of seeing either true federalism or any reduction in regulation and licensing of anything. We seem to have a lot of conservatives, and society in general seems to continue the rightward shift that started sometime in the early 90's, but the government seems to be shifting slowly leftward.

It makes no sense, but we have conservative voters putting liberal Republicans (and even more liberal Democrats) into office again and again.

Perhaps it is because we are rich enough that we think we can afford big government. Or maybe it is just apathy, we are so tired of fighting with the left that we figure we can give them a few concessions and hope they go away. Or maybe the right is acting the same way the politicians do, trying to appear nice by giving in on social programs. I don't know.

It makes very little sense to me.