"Ralph Mowery" wrote in message
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The other two are the Medical profession and lawyers.

That's totally false. There are all millions of all kinds of medical
professionals and lawyers in the market, that are competitors.





I did not mean it was a manopoloy by strict definition.

Say I want to open up a business to repair TV sets. All I have to do is
go to the court house and fill out a few forms and open up my business.

If I want to be a lawyer, I have to do all sorts of things. Go to
school (can't learn law by myself), pass a law exam and probably
many other things. Same with the doctors. Notice that then have never
advertised the prices. Maybe the are now. Say I have a broken bone,
can I look on the internet and see how much it will cost ? no. I think
I may have the flu. Can I look in the news paper and see any prices for
a doctor, no.

You can here. And that has nothing to do with a monopoly anyway.

About the same with lawyers. Say I want a lawyer to go to court
for a trafic ticket. How do I find out how much it will cost for a
lawyer? I bet that if I called around thew would all be the same.

I know they arent. The best of the lawyers charge a hell of a lot
more per day to show up in court for you than the cheapest do.

And that's still not a monopoly, there are lots of lawyers to choose
from and you are free to show up in court without one too. And I
did just that myself over a speeding fine and did fine without one.

The medical schools only let in so many people each year to be doctors
and nurses. I remember when the machines to 'blast' the kindey stones
first came out. They would not let the local hospital have one because
it would make the treatment cost come down due to competition.

That's illegal here and there have be prosecutions of operations doing that.

It isnt even legal to tell anyone what price they have to sell your product
for either.