With no regs, to protect consumers no bad doc, bad drug or bad hospital would face consequences of bad product or bad medical care.
Being on the Medicare and Tricare Life end, they are NOT ENTITLEMENTS but prepaid health care from taxes we paid or Military 20+ yr career being over deployed, shot at, maimed. Add in under paid to choose that career. With both FIXED/RATIONED programs Congress dictates what you are allowed. Worse than private ins as docs and hospitals don’t want you, to slow and to low reimbursement.
That does not mean they can or should get away charging $800 for a $15 IV solution.
“I for one am all for getting doctors out of the business of regulating health care. I own my body, my body is not owned by government, nor by the medical community in collusion with government.”
Then the incestuous relationship between congress, health industry lobbyist, Big Pharma that needs to be broken up under the Stevens Monopoly Act, and FDA needs to end. If docs were forced to reveal ALL the side effects of drugs and FDA forced to removed FLAGGED and Black Boxed drugs we have better health care. And don’t try and practice out of your field. A Internist is not a Endocrinologist. Endo’s have 4 more years of education, before they go thru internship and recency training. A ignorant doc will kill or maim you.
And people with Chronic health conditions need health care to live many extra conditions are caused by the BAD drugs the corrupt FDA cleared then had to Flag or Black Box which docs ignore now. Other wise you create a EUGENICS POOL of patients. No better than Planned Parenthood.
You ran off in a direction that I never even hinted at. The solution for much of this is to restore the full ability of an injured party to seek damages in court. But at present government not only gives itself the power to control health care, it also gives itself a monopoly on seeking damages in court, or at least it makes it so difficult that big health care business can abuse people.