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Re:An anarchist takes on Big Pharma by teaching patients to ... by dv_dt on Saturday October 14, 2017 @11:44AM (#15472643)
Those costs don't go to zero without compliance - there would either be costs to manufacture with sufficient medical quality or people would be getting shoddy drugs (which is a human cost). Blackmarket drugs get cut or replaced or just have random terrible things mixed into it all the time so I am skeptical of zero-compliance cost drugs.
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Re:An anarchist takes on Big Pharma by teaching patients to ... by alexanderstears on Saturday October 14, 2017 @11:13PM (#15475698)
Okay, if you want to pay extra for compliance, you're allowed to do so. Just as you're allowed to spend more on iPhones. It's mean-spirited of you to argue that others should be bound to your quality expectations.
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Re:An anarchist takes on Big Pharma by teaching patients to ... by dv_dt on Sunday October 15, 2017 @07:02PM (#15479848)
If you don't want the quality, you are free to go procure the medical drugs and services from a back alley, but I doubt it's worth all the verification work that would require...
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Re:An anarchist takes on Big Pharma by teaching patients to ... by alexanderstears on Sunday October 15, 2017 @09:41PM (#15480354)
That's not true in America.
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Re:An anarchist takes on Big Pharma by teaching patients to ... by AnthonyMouse on Monday October 16, 2017 @01:23AM (#15481037)
Compliance costs can be low without being ineffective. You can buy a bag of spinach for $2 and yet so few of them are infected with salmonella that when it does happen it's a huge scandal.
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