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The silver lining of regulatory burden is that there is less competition and higher willingness to pay. It is still annoying though.

Jonathan Bush, CEO of athenahealth, recently ranted at congress about excessive healthcare regulation. His frustration was palpable: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CekfvGDiab8

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>The silver lining of regulatory burden is that there is less competition and higher willingness to pay.

From the perspective of consumers I'd say this is not exactly a silver lining. (Though obviously I don't think you were suggesting that the excessive regulation is a good situation overall, just that at least there's some incentive for startups to power through.)

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