Re:Make essential drugs affordable for all: Cipla
by rayiner on Sunday May 04, 2014 @09:51AM
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Governments do spend huge amounts on medical treatment. Medicare/Medicaid/NIH funding amounts to hundreds of billions per year.
Agreed, they already spend a huge sum of money on healthcare. My point was that they don't spend a "huge" enough amount of money to make "right to live" possible in all scenarios.
Re:Make essential drugs affordable for all: Cipla
by curiousphil on Sunday May 04, 2014 @11:14AM
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Or billions of dollars are spent by corporate lobbyists to ensure the government and general population keep the mindset that health and well being isn't a right for people that live in a wealthy first world nation.
If people really thought like him, we'd be getting our governments to be spending huge sums of money on health/healthcare/medical research. But we don't. So either he's one of the few that think this way, or there is something else at play.