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Re:A Billionaire Pledges to Fight High Drug Prices, and the ... by yodsanklai on Sunday October 21, 2018 @05:56PM (#18270563)
Because you should be able to show up, get your treatment and go home without paying a dime, like in most developed countries.
Re:A Billionaire Pledges to Fight High Drug Prices, and the ... by robertAngst on Sunday October 21, 2018 @08:56PM (#18271366)
That sounds unsustainable and bad capitalism.

Free services mean a few people will overuse and abuse.

Re:A Billionaire Pledges to Fight High Drug Prices, and the ... by cmyr on Sunday October 21, 2018 @09:18PM (#18271437)
Indeed, ever since I realized I could get medical care without paying for it I've been going out and getting cancer a couple times a week.
Re:A Billionaire Pledges to Fight High Drug Prices, and the ... by woah on Monday October 22, 2018 @08:39AM (#18274115)
Countries with universal health care spend less on health care. It’s empirically proven to be cheaper.
Re:A Billionaire Pledges to Fight High Drug Prices, and the ... by monotone666 on Monday October 22, 2018 @02:04AM (#18272521)
Eventually seeking out excessive medical care will be considered a mental illness and it’s practioners hospitalized
Re:A Billionaire Pledges to Fight High Drug Prices, and the ... by xkcd-sucks on Monday October 22, 2018 @05:52AM (#18273360)
"Drug seeking behavior" extended to antibiotics and chemotherapy lol
Re:A Billionaire Pledges to Fight High Drug Prices, and the ... by Latteland on Sunday October 21, 2018 @09:17PM (#18271432)
So you are saying poor people should just die I guess. Them and their kids.
Re:A Billionaire Pledges to Fight High Drug Prices, and the ... by ionised on Monday October 22, 2018 @04:43AM (#18273091)
> That sounds unsustainable

It is perfectly sustainable if you have a population that isn't ideologically opposed to taxes. You can fix that with education.

> and bad capitalism.

Good capitalism or bad capitalism, who cares? This sounds like a pointless ideological concern, again.

> Free services mean a few people will overuse and abuse.

It seems spiteful to me to deny universal healthcare to the majority because a minority might abuse it.