Re:Why Is College in America So Expensive?
by fzeroracer on Tuesday September 11, 2018 @08:40PM
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Can you prove that the US healthcare industry is more regulated than countries like say, Germany or Canada? Because it would be incredibly hard to believe that somehow America is more regulated than countries that have more direct control over their healthcare.
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Re:Why Is College in America So Expensive?
by kryogen1c on Tuesday September 11, 2018 @09:06PM
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I think that's exactly the point: direct control and heavy regulation are two different things.
This in-between fairyland with artificial barriers to entry on the frontend but no control on the back end is what's creating these captive markets where old companies to do almost anything because new companies can't join the market.
Re:Why Is College in America So Expensive?
by chillacy on Tuesday September 11, 2018 @09:32PM
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To add to that point, because the government guarantees things that it has no control over, it means the businesses in these industries have the best risk/reward ratio possible: no risk for unlimited upside, because the risk is taken care of by taxpayers.