(October 6, 2017 at 4:11 pm)Coveny Wrote:I did, yes. I also know that the reason for this regulation is specifically to shut down abortion clinics. That doesn't mean that every regulation is a bad idea, or is meant explicitly to shut down a clinic. I'm not interested in setting up an experiment in third world medicine in this country through deregulation.
1) Deregulate medical buildings
Did you know that in an abortion clinic it’s required to have hallways big enough to fit two gurneys side by side? Did you also know that they don’t use gurneys in an abortion clinic? The point being there are many laws in place that regulate what a medical building must have, and these laws double if not triple the cost require to build these facilities. By removing these regulations, we could have doctors who saw patients out of their homes completely removing the overhead costs of having a hospital at all. Obviously, this opens concerns about infection and hygiene but if we want to lower costs and allow more people to make money in the medical profession we need to be able to treat it like any other profession. If you want to pay the extra money for a nice that is always an option, but for the poor this gives them other options to get the treatment they need. And as with everything else, as the demand in the hospitals drops, the cost of going to the nicer facilities will drop as well. This is what capitalism excels at. Once we’ve done that we can setup classification of facilities by standards.
Doctors can still make house calls. There's no law against it. They don't do it because insurance generally doesn't reimburse for it - which means they don't get paid, that and because their volume is lower. You see more patients when they come to you..and you can handle more patients in one of those regulated buildings.
You know what the old american term for an unregulated medical facility was? An alley.
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