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No one said it was harmless but Pharmaceuticals companies are making obscene amounts of money by charging outrageous prices. You're arguing that there's no m
by cptskippy 8y ago
No one said it was harmless but Pharmaceuticals companies are making obscene amounts of money by charging outrageous prices. You're arguing that there's no middle ground and we must either have exploitative drug companies putting profits over people's well beings or an oppressive government putting people's needs over the business's long term viability.
- SilasX 8y ago>No one said it was harmless Virtually every such exposition of the argument says exactly that.
- ptah 8y agoin the case of drug prices it is actually beneficial
- hackeraccount 8y agoWhy limit the practice to pharmaceuticals? In theory the government can be a middle man for any good or service. Why not have the government buy all the cars in country and the parcel them out to people at a fair rate? I think everyone (or most everyone) understands that would be a disaster. Switch the good to pharmaceuticals and suddenly it's reasonable?
- cptskippy 8y agoWhat's the alternative? Keep the status quo?