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Your reasoning for point 4 is horrendous and terrible. You are advocating for the return of snakeoil. There are already problems with homeopathic remedies and "
by DannoHung 16y ago
Your reasoning for point 4 is horrendous and terrible. You are advocating for the return of snakeoil. There are already problems with homeopathic remedies and "magnets" and all this other crap that gives people false hope and leads them to avoid making medically difficult choices while lining the pockets of shysters.
- philwelch 16y agoSeems like snake oil is a problem either way. FDA testing for efficacy before approving prescription drugs is a totally different ball of fur--unless you expect legitimate physicians to write prescriptions for snake oil?
- sprout 16y agoYou can suggest someone take anything they want if it's available without a prescription. You just can't say on the label that it's effective. What exactly is being argued for if not that prescriptions should be allowed even when efficacy is unsure?
- pyre 16y agoBut what is the cost of trying to legislate these people away?
- msbarnett 16y ago> But what is the cost of trying to legislate these people away? Consider that many other first-world nations also legislate away drugs that aren't more effective than a placebo and yet still spend a significantly lower percentage of their GDP on health care.
- pyre 16y agoThe costs are not always felt in fiscal terms. There is also the cost of an increasingly complex set of legal codes. There is also the cost of broadly-worded laws being applied in ways they were never intended to be applied, etc.
- borism 16y agotrue, but maybe you should start with cost in fiscal terms and then go to solving all other mythical problems that bother you?
- pyre 16y agoYou're claiming that we (in the US) have a simple legal code, and therefore it is inconceivable for someone to commit a crime without knowing that what they were doing was illegal? (i.e. 'complex set of legal codes' is a 'mythical' problem)
- pyre 16y agoI would really like a justification for the down-votes. I have no one providing discussion as to why I'm off-base. All I have is a post that I consider to be bordering on 'troll' (i.e. calling all concerns outside of the fiscal realm 'mythical') getting up-votes.
- borism 16y agoMaybe because you're completely off-topic? Like previous commenter noted there are many countries with much more complex "legal codes" than US, yet their healthcare doesn't cost as much. Though if you have any evidence that cost of US healthcare is so high because it's so over-regulated, then you're free to provide it.