July 17, 2009 11:51AM 

# Regulation Cures Cancer 

By [Jim Harper](https://www.cato.org/people/jim-harper) 

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That’s the implicit [message](http://action.acscan.org/site/News2?page=NewsArticle&id=11201&news_iv_ctrl=1321) of an advocacy campaign the American Cancer Society’s “Cancer Action Network” is running in the Washington, D.C. Metro’s Capitol South station.

Large placards showing pictures of people people who are “NOW” healthy but will “LATER” be stricken with cancer give Capitol Hill staffers commuting in to work a clear message: Do something — anything. It’s part of the otherworldly bubble that lobbyists and advocacy groups press around staff and members of Congress.

The message they need — perhaps a little too complex for the subway — is that Congress has [Münchausen syndrome by proxy](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/M%C3%BCnchausen_syndrome_by_proxy) with respect to the health care system.

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[Government and Politics](https://www.cato.org/government-politics), [Health Care](https://www.cato.org/health-care) 

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