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Health Care: No, the State Doesn't Know Best

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2884604/posts PRICES WERE OUT OF CONTROL at the end of 3rd-century Rome, and the Emperor Diocletian was determined to rein them in. In AD 301 he issued his famous Edict on Prices, a complex piece of legislation that banned speculation and established...