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One of the reasons this happens is conservative economic philosophy. Public health is carried out by the government, while drug sales are carried out by private
by woodandsteel 10y ago
One of the reasons this happens is conservative economic philosophy. Public health is carried out by the government, while drug sales are carried out by private corporations, and according to conservative economic philosophy, private corporations are better than the government.
- killjoywashere 10y agoThe problem is conservative economic philosophy depends on letting a problem get bad enough that the typical customer becomes informed. How many people do you want to get MDR TB before people are sufficiently interested in the topic to become informed enough to make rational decisions in a well-developed market? I'm not sure people realize how much the public health labs do that would simply never pay, yet saves lives: who's going to speciate and sequence rare, but highly contagious or virulent organisms (like MDR TB) isolated from some one homeless person, who, by virtue of their unfortunate circumstances, serves as a canary in the coalmine of the modern city.