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Re:In Jail Without a Lawyer: How a Texas Town Fails Poor Def... by briandear on Wednesday March 26, 2025 @06:50AM (#43480771)
> no real oversight

The US health system is excessively regulated. It’s anything but unrestricted capitalism. I would argue that the regulation is what makes the system so broken.

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Re:In Jail Without a Lawyer: How a Texas Town Fails Poor Def... by lurk2 on Wednesday March 26, 2025 @07:23AM (#43480954)
Which regulations do you believe are contributing to the system being broken?
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Re:In Jail Without a Lawyer: How a Texas Town Fails Poor Def... by johnisgood on Wednesday March 26, 2025 @07:07AM (#43480869)
Exactly, Government interventions do more harm than good, but some people still have not caught up on that.
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Re:In Jail Without a Lawyer: How a Texas Town Fails Poor Def... by alabastervlog on Wednesday March 26, 2025 @10:48AM (#43482850)
We should pick one of the other OECD states to copy, then. One supposes their systems are less-regulated, since they're cheaper for similar or better outcomes. That must be the case, if excessive regulation is the key problem with the US system, and not something else.
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