&gt;<i>While the article seems to criticize rent-seeking behavior only in businesses and professions that require lower levels of education, if we combine this article&#x27;s statements with the often repeated claim that the US pays roughly twice as much for health care per capita as other developed countries it seems reasonable to ask: Is there a rent seeking problem in the medical and dental fields too?</i><p>Western countries with same or even stricter bars to become a doctor&#x2F;dentist etc manage to have 1&#x2F;3 to 1&#x2F;10 the prices the US has.<p>So I don&#x27;t think it&#x27;s &quot;rent seeking&quot; that&#x27;s responsible for this. I&#x27;d put the blame more on insurance companies and the bizarro US ideas about employment insurance and healthcare.<p>Nor I think &quot;occupational licensing&quot; for e.g. cabs which can be considered rent-seeking is the same as requiring higher levels of education from doctors, lawyers and such things.