Unhealthy regulations.Many Americans see government regulation as the only way to ensure high-quality health care and broad access to medical services. It's easy to forget that an excessive regulatory burden can also cost lives by pricing people out of the health care market. According to according to prep. 1. As stated or indicated by; on the authority of: according to historians. 2. In keeping with: according to instructions. 3. a recent Cato Institute "Cato" redirects here. For Cato, see Cato. The Institute's stated mission is "to broaden the parameters of public policy debate to allow consideration of the traditional American principles of limited government, individual liberty, free markets, and peace" by striving "to achieve study by Christopher J. Conover of Duke University, health regulations in the U.S. neglect that vital injunction injunction, in law, order of a court directing a party to perform a certain act or to refrain from an act or acts. The injunction, which developed as the main remedy in equity, is used especially where money damages would not satisfy a plaintiff's claim, or to : "First, do no harm." In every area Conover analyzed an·a·lyze tr.v. an·a·lyzed, an·a·lyz·ing, an·a·lyz·es 1. To examine methodically by separating into parts and studying their interrelations. 2. Chemistry To make a chemical analysis of. 3. , he found the costs of regulation outweighed--sometimes dramatically--the benefit, amounting to a net "hidden tax" of some $169 billion annually. But the cost isn't measured only in dollars: Those added costs, Conover estimates, lead to some 22,000 deaths annually, more than the 18,000 attributed to lack of health insurance. |
|
||||||||||||||||||||
Printer friendly
Cite/link
Email
Feedback
Reader Opinion