October 10, 2007 8:13AM 

# Overtreated 

By [Arnold Kling](https://www.cato.org/people/arnold-kling) 

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[My review](http://www.tcsdaily.com/article.aspx?id=101107A) of Shannon Brownlee’s new book says,

> The point is that getting the advantages of McMedicine may not be a matter of sheer collective will, as Brownlee would have it. Instead, it might require radical deregulation of medical licensure and practice regulations.

I like the fact that her book often inverts the usual story of villains and victims in health care. For example, lawyers and doctors who fight insurance companies for approval of a desperate cancer therapy turn out to be wrong.

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