Re:Drug Prices Too High? Sometimes, They’re Not Costly Enough
by danjayh on Wednesday June 01, 2016 @02:21AM
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Politicians are motivated by power, not by your needs. We have had repeated examples of just how bad states truly are at providing for people's basic needs. Every time it's been tried, it's resulted in chronic shortages, often to the point of starvation. The USSR, Cuba, North Korea, China (before they went capitalist). I'm going to take a wager and say that the days when the USSR was still a major world power were before your time, and if I'm right, I strongly encourage you to do some reading on what it was like for the people who lived in it.
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Re:Drug Prices Too High? Sometimes, They’re Not Costly Enough
by hackuser on Wednesday June 01, 2016 @03:10AM
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Government provides many basic needs in the U.S., from roads to airports to sanitation to education to security (police, fire, and military); to food, water, shelter and healthcare for the needy; to justice, to much more.
These services generally function relatively well in the U.S. and other wealthy countries.
Re:Drug Prices Too High? Sometimes, They’re Not Costly Enough
by sgift on Wednesday June 01, 2016 @03:06AM
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And yet we still have states, and they still provide basic services (e.g. roads, water, waste disposal). Why is that? If they were as useless as you think they are we would have removed them a long time ago. Maybe there's still something useful in them?
Regarding your point of reading up on USSR etc.: I've talked with people who lived in these countries at that time, thanks. They don't see it as black and white as you do. Which kind of makes my point.