Stan Galat posted:Todd M posted:Same drug costs your friend nothing in the UK. Costs you $1200 per year here. The price of a good does not determine the morality of how one obtains a product. You can steal the medication and it costs you nothing. I doubt that makes it right to steal it. Do you suppose that in the UK the government tells the drug manufacturers how much they can sell their product for? I am guessing that is the case. The liberty of the manufacturer is abrogated in order to give the product to someone else. Sounds like theft to me.
Todd,
Let me guess-- you're a pharmaceutical rep?
Not even close. I have nothing to do with the pharma business, except that I have to pay for medications just like everyone else. My family is affected by the cost of health care just like everyone else. Every dollar of my last raise goes to an increased cost of health insurance. I seem to remember the supporters of government sponsored health insurance saying how it, Obamacare, was going to lower the prices of health care, especially pharmaceuticals. So, how is that government program working out for all of those paying for health insurance?
If anybody thinks the pharma companies are getting rich at their expense, there is a solution. Buy the stock of the pharma companies that are making too much money.
I just understand how wrong it is to take something that does not belong to me. Every emotional plea in the world does not change the fact that taking something that is not yours is stealing.
"Forcing people to be generous isn't humanitarian, effective, compassionate, or moral. Only acts that are truly voluntary for all concerned can be truly compassionate."
If a person is truly concerned with another person's plight of medical bills, then they will help pay for them. Saying the government should fix it is an attempt to feel good about oneself without actually helping.
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I have no idea why it is not clear to everyone, but it is clear to me that government involvement only raises the cost of whatever it purports to be helping, and the appeal to taxpayers is always that the cost will be borne by the rich, or somebody else will have to pay. Well, wake the ____ up.