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Re:Non-profit’s $300 hepatitis C cure as effective as $84k a... by positr0n on Thursday April 12, 2018 @05:55PM (#16825241)
What do you mean by that? I'm sympathetic to making healthcare look more like a free market, but I don't know what a free market in health care looks like.

If you don't have money, society shouldn't just let you die. The second you try to fix that (with government) you don't have a free market.

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Re:Non-profit’s $300 hepatitis C cure as effective as $84k a... by skookumchuck on Thursday April 12, 2018 @06:08PM (#16825339)
The US had a free market in health care before the 1960s.

Health care was a lot cheaper then, and charity was available for poor people.

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Re:Non-profit’s $300 hepatitis C cure as effective as $84k a... by DoveBrown on Friday April 13, 2018 @06:11AM (#16828502)
And health care was a lot worse in the 1960s and before. Let's not pretend that before the 1960s were some golden age. In 1965 infant mortality was 24.7 deaths per live births, in 2016 it was 4.3.

Sources: 1965 number from: https://www.cdc.gov/nchs/data/series/sr_20/sr20_020acc.pdf 2016 number from: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_infant_an...

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Re:Non-profit’s $300 hepatitis C cure as effective as $84k a... by skookumchuck on Friday April 13, 2018 @04:01PM (#16833439)
They've been trending downward in the US since 1800.

https://www2.census.gov/library/publications/1960/compendia/...

You can see by the other stats in the PDF that all measures of health improved dramatically 1800-1960.

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