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PS: been talking this issue over with some American friends, and they see the medical market very differently. There may be a Continental Europe versus US issue here.

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My question is what reasons anyone has to think that it actually does.

I actually feel that it does, because I feel the medical market is quite close to the description I gave of it. The reasons for my belief are all subjective (personal experiences, friend's experiences, and doctors-who-are-friends experiences, and - even worse - newspaper reports), so my belief isn't very strong, but it is there (and very specific to the perverse-incentive aspect of noisy measures). Anders' example has undermined my belief to some extent though.

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