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[Gene GeRue <genegerue AT ruralize.com>]

On Jun 12, 2008, at 9:58 AM, Clansgian AT wmconnect.com wrote:

> Higher education need not involve the government in any way and  
> neither does
> certification of physicians.  Of course, I am a unrepentant  
> libertarian.  I
> believe there should be any sort of education and certification  
> anyone wants to
> devise and it should be the responsibility of the consumer as to  
> whether they
> put confidence in it or no.  But it need not involve the government.

A lovely dream. Know of that working anywhere?

This speaks to the same mindset of various plans that ask that  
industries regulate themselves. I find it naive at best and shameful  
in reality. Asking the fox to guard the henhouse. AMA certification  
might well work but if it did not many would suffer. Even with  
government certification there is myriad medical disaster, people  
having the wrong organ removed, mixing up patients, hospital  
infections galore (my daughter's meningeal encephalitis is an  
example). I will not say that more government regulation will solve  
all the problems, but if not, what will?