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Hospital Wireless Networks May Be Regulated Medical Devices
Lucas123 writes "As hospitals continue to connect patient monitoring equipment, physician PDAs and laptops to wireless networks, and then collapse those data paths onto traditional IT networks, the closer the US Food and Drug Administration comes to regulating them, according to Computerworld. The focus of the FDA's regulation comes in its recently finalized 80001-1 standard that established risk management practices for those networks, the adherence to which may be voluntary, but would determine Medicaid and Medicare reimbursements. 'If you don't comply, then you have two choices. You can have the federal government come in and inspect your hospital, or you can decide not to accept money from Medicare or Medicaid. Voluntary sometimes isn't exactly voluntary,' said Rick Hampton, wireless communications manager for Partners HealthCare System in Boston."
You fool! You're suposed to let the free market decide! If too many people die at hospital A, just go to hospital B!
That should be true for non-life-threatening circumstances.
The satire that leftists make of libertarianism is rather stupid and preaching to the choir.
Libertarianism isn't about getting rid of all regulations and having no government at all, that would be classical communism, the ultimate goal of Marxism.
Libertarianism is about being aware that one person's liberty ends where the other person's liberty begins. It's about making those limits more or less equal to everybody. The hospital's liberty to cut corners ends where my liberty to live begins.
The free market isn't the goal of libertarians, it's just one of the consequences. And it works for its purposes which are economic in nature.
Now go back to reading Trotsky, Bakunin, and Marx, I think you missed a few chapters.