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You mean we do let them do that unless you aren't able to pay them for it. If you're the minority that has very large sums of money your doctors can decide what
by autoexec 7mo ago
You mean we do let them do that unless you aren't able to pay them for it. If you're the minority that has very large sums of money your doctors can decide what treatment works best, but for everyone else their healthcare is dictated by some company whose only concern is increasing the amount of profit they rake in and they'd happily see you dead if it would improve their bottom line.
- terminalshort 7mo agoYour comment contains nothing of value. If you have a better way to allocate scarce resources please state it.
- maest 7mo agoIn the US the allocation process itself is very expensive. Something like a third of the cost goes towards paying the administrative costs of navigating the byzantine insurance rules.
- RobotToaster 7mo agoThese resources are only scarce because of artificial scarcity. This is especially true of patent medicines, where it's government enforced artificial scarcity.
- nradov 7mo agoIf not for the government enforced artificial scarcity then many of those medicines wouldn't exist in the first place. Bringing a new drug to market costs >$1B now, largely due to clinical trials. No one is going to do that without patent protection.
- MrDrMcCoy 7mo agoMedical patents should come with compulsory licensing requirements. Nobody's saying that research houses shouldn't get paid, just that the monopoly needs to end.