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Capitalism also funded the research and development of that medical care you're complaining about being too expensive. Better that it exists and is expensive ra
by derp_dee_derp 7y ago
Capitalism also funded the research and development of that medical care you're complaining about being too expensive. Better that it exists and is expensive rather than that medical care not existing at all.
- jtr1 7y agoAre you sure about that?
- silversconfused 7y agoPlenty of medical science has been done with less greedy motives, such as eliminating suffering. For that reason, medical science can easily survive the capitalists abandoning it.
- KirinDave 7y agoThis sounds like a positive claim that could use proof.
- maxerickson 7y agoI think arriving at a hard percentage would be difficult, but I don't see how it is controversial that US government funded research has been well supported by capitalism and contributed much medical knowledge, or that there has been lots of private research and development work in the medical field in the United States (I guess lots and lots of development has been privately funded). Of course, that history played out that way is a different argument than claiming that we could only arrive at our current level of medical knowledge by that path.
- KirinDave 7y agoAll we'd need to do is look at the tax code for health care businesses.
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