just like taking the profit out of insurance will make healthcare affordable?
random thoughts Send a noteboard - 06/03/2010 12:12:25 PM
Even though insurance profits make up only a tiny fraction of medical cost? Do you have any reason to believe that taking a huge percentage of the profits out of pharmaceuticals won't affect the development of new pharmaceuticals?
I suspect that if we did actually force pharmaceutical companies to charge the same price here as they do in other places they would stop offering some drugs here because we also refuse to reform our out of control tort system.
I suspect that if we did actually force pharmaceutical companies to charge the same price here as they do in other places they would stop offering some drugs here because we also refuse to reform our out of control tort system.
Oh my god...I'm a socialist!
- 05/03/2010 02:46:17 PM
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Just remind yourself how good the government is with its other efforts
- 05/03/2010 03:00:26 PM
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And remember that some of the biggest health insurance companies are already "non-profits".
- 05/03/2010 03:18:45 PM
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The problem with "look how bad govt. programs are" is it ignores the "starve the beast" theory.
- 05/03/2010 05:51:50 PM
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You really think taking the money oput of the system won't affect innovation?
- 05/03/2010 10:09:20 PM
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those drugs would probably still get developed, and at about the same rate as before
- 06/03/2010 07:14:07 AM
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Re: those drugs would probably still get developed, and at about the same rate as before
- 06/03/2010 09:37:44 AM
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just like taking the profit out of insurance will make healthcare affordable?
- 06/03/2010 12:12:25 PM
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No, I don't, because expired patents would drive it if nothing else did.
- 15/03/2010 06:32:55 AM
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Don't worry it isn't like we have free market economics in health care right now
- 05/03/2010 03:19:39 PM
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Hold on a sec.
- 05/03/2010 05:58:00 PM
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That's not really a socialist policy.
- 05/03/2010 03:24:59 PM
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True. The European far-right isn't really far-right (or even right) in economic terms. *NM*
- 05/03/2010 11:46:15 PM
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you don't seem to understand socialism. visit wikipedia and check it out there. *NM*
- 05/03/2010 05:16:02 PM
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Making healthcare universally accessible is not socialist...
- 05/03/2010 05:29:16 PM
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It is universally accessible now
- 05/03/2010 05:43:52 PM
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Ah, like the Rolls Royce is universally acceptable.
- 05/03/2010 05:52:59 PM
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BS *NM*
- 05/03/2010 06:08:52 PM
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BSS
- 05/03/2010 06:28:15 PM
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Random Thoughts
- 05/03/2010 06:31:00 PM
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For profit isn't automatically BAD, just an unwise panacea for essential services.
- 05/03/2010 05:45:36 PM
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Government run isn't automatically BAD, just an unwise panacea for essential services.
- 05/03/2010 06:30:14 PM
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Universal healthcare is good...
- 05/03/2010 10:13:01 PM
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great I was really hoping we could hear from a moron and you seem to fit the bill
- 05/03/2010 11:39:15 PM
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I think he was joking RT - note the
at the end of the message
*NM*
- 06/03/2010 09:23:45 AM
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at the end of the message
*NM*
- 06/03/2010 09:23:45 AM
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How does "Don't worry, it will never happen in America either way" sound?
- 05/03/2010 11:49:23 PM
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