Abstract
While state medical licensure laws ostensibly are intended to promote worthwhile goals, such as the maintenance of high standards in health care delivery, this Article argues that these laws in practice are detrimental to consumers. The Article takes the position that licensure contributes to high medical care costs and stifles competition, innovation and consumer autonomy. It concludes that delicensure would expand the range of health services available to consumers and reduce patient dependency, and that these developments would tend to make medical practice more satisfying to consumers and providers of health care services.
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- Subject
Consumer Protection Law
Economics
Health Law and Policy
Law and Economics
Law and Society
Legal Ethics and Professional Responsibility
Legal Writing and Research
Medical Jurisprudence
Public Law and Legal Theory
Social Welfare Law
- Journal title
American Journal of Law & Medicine
- Volume
9
- Pagination
335-356
- Date submitted
6 September 2022
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