Comment by gilbetron
3 months ago
You assume that there is any meaningful competition. What we are seeing, across industries including education, is a type of indirect collusion that is keeping prices crazy, not competition. Over regulation is a big piece of what enables all this.
Some states require a "Certificate of Need" to open a new hospital so we ought to do away with those to promote competition. But beyond that, which specific regulations are harming competition?
https://www.ftc.gov/news-events/features/certificates-public...
Lack of health care records interoperability (locks patients into a system).
Much of the well-intended regulation around healthcare ends up getting perverted to prevent competition.
You misunderstand. We only have a degree of interoperability for patient records due to federal regulation. Regulation in that area actually helps competition.
https://www.cms.gov/priorities/burden-reduction/overview/int...