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Well obviously the enlightened consumer would simply choose not to have cancer when the price of treatment is too high or the supply too low, thus keeping every
by bregma 3y ago
Well obviously the enlightened consumer would simply choose not to have cancer when the price of treatment is too high or the supply too low, thus keeping everything in balance and the theory working perfectly. Ceteris paribus of course.
- ethanbond 3y agoIndeed! ”Now let’s assume a perfectly spherical cancer patient…”
- seventhson 3y ago"Ooo, the drugs for this cancer are cheap and plentiful. I'll choose this cancer for my terminal disease."
- LordShredda 3y agoThat's kind of the point of regular health check ups
- jareklupinski 3y agoto be fair, it should be possible to study rates of cancer incidence for a given population and predict which drugs would be needed based on typical progression rates, with a national reserve of the ones that are less common to supply shortfalls as needed