Doctors in Texas are trying to prevent individuals there from using telemedicine to consult physicians who are outside the state. NPR reports: "In response to the board's restrictions, Teladoc has filed a lawsuit that accuses the medical board of artificially limiting supply and increasing prices....Mari Robinson, executive director of the Texas Medical Board, says the rules aren't meant to stifle competition. They're meant to ensure patient safety."
Sure.
It's another example of how free-market competition and technology, rather than ObamaCare government control, can drive down health-care costs, and of how the entrenched interests who are doing well under the current system, like doctors in Texas, will resist change.
