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An unregulated healthcare market, complete with all the benefits of the free market, was the rule in the US until the Pure Good and Drug Act of 1906. It's history is... entertaining.



An act which incidentally is credited as the most beneficial piece of US legislation to date in terms of addiction reduction and prevention.




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