Good in theory, bad in practice

January 28, 2008

The unintended consequences on some health laws.



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1 Anonymous January 28, 2008 at 8:12 pm

No one understands the multiple interactions by which any action anywhere impact throughout the “system”. No single regulator sees the entire elephant and the consequences are unpredictable except for this:

There will always be unintended consequences of any new rule and some of them will be wasteful and others harmful to at least some patients as distortions and inefficiencies are introduced.

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