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[QUOTE]Originally posted by Omega: [QB] Ritten: [i]Calling someone dumb or stupid is the part that I find, mmm, repulsive.[/i] Which is why I don't do that. Daryus: [i]How are you, as a so called advocate of the free market, willing to support companies that charge outrageous rates for medical supplies, such as drugs, which are an essential to life?[/i] Did it ever occur to you that that's what they cost to make? As for your plant example, that would be an example of bad laws. You shouldn't be able to patent a natural substance. [i]Get rid of profits alltogether if you're doing this for such moral reasons.[/i] Daryus, man, you may be older than me, but there are some things you really need to learn about people. For one, if everything that got done was done for moral reasons, then almost nothing would get done. People are out to better their lifestyle, and that means making money and getting paid, and THAT means the private sector. Which, funnily enough, works pretty well over here. For most people, if given the choice between developing a drug for nothing, and doing so for the money they need to support their family, the latter will win, hands down. [i]These companies are made up for people with brains. It wouldn't matter if they were working for the government, or that donkey down the street. They'd get the same results.[/i] Not true. If there was only one buyer, then prices would be dictated by that buyer. Prices would be forced down, with detrimental effects on the company, and thus the product, jobs, and R&D. [i]I'm going to make points, however I damn well like.[/i] And I'll shoot them down based on either factual error, or logical fallicy, of which appeal to mass popularity is one. Fair enough? [i]The doctor submits an invoice to the medicare. They process it and pay him for the consultation.[/i] Who determines how much he gets paid? [i]It still works out more cost effective than your little private empire. And not only that, everyone is covered.[/i] And all you have to give up is innovation, the rights of doctors and medical companies, and a huge chunk of your economy. This, compaired to the fact that it's cheaper. Let's see. Figure in obvious costs, plus bureaucratic costs, plus detriment to your economy and the other disadvantages listed, and I'd say that we're just a LITTLE better off with our system, under which everyone can get treatment, too. [/QB][/QUOTE]
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