&gt; 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?<p>Wait, are you suggesting that the regulatory barriers to private competition in medicine and dentistry are <i>higher</i> in the US than other developed countries?