DH>  JB> IOW, the federal government is dictating to the hospitals
DH>  JB> -who- they, the hospitals, -can't- accept, hardly consistent
DH>  JB> with free market ideals, the business being free to engage or
DH>  JB> -not- to engage in business.
DH>
DH>  Not to mention, in the state of Mississippi, the state must approve th
DH>  addition of new hospital beds, based on a state definition of "need".
A recent item in the news is that the federal government (i.e., the
taxpayers) is now paying medical schools to *NOT* train doctors.
I'm still trying to figure out how reducing the supply of medical
care will lower its cost and make it more readily available.
Apparently I wasn't trained at the Clintonian school of economics.
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