&gt; The answer: we accept a far higher cost of medicine and medical treatments in exchange for regulations. Go compare costs between us and other countries.<p>The countries that pay less than us often are at least as highly regulated when it comes to medicine, medical treatments, and their delivery, so while we certainly are paying a lot more for those things, I don&#x27;t think that the argument that we do so &quot;in exchange for regulations&quot; is particularly defensible.