What hit me in your statement

azstrummer — 8/24/2007 7:47:31 PM (archived)

was the paragraph about tracking drugs that have a chance to make your wife whole again. You talk about the billions required to bring these drugs to market and yet, were the health system truly private and realistically competitive, wouldn't the cost of those drugs once developed be so expensive that a person of your means couldn't afford them? If your health insurance had to pay the full cost for those drugs so that they could provide them to you at an affordable price, they'd drop you like a rock at the first possible chance.

I'm sorry Tom but were profit the only thing driving the creation of new and marvelous drugs we wouldn't have a cure for MS since it only hits a small portion of the population. We'd have a cure for genital herpes.

Talk about the necklaces being in a tangle.

Art

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Bush the Child Killer - azstrummer - 8/21/2007 9:16:21 PM
- Interesting article - azstrummer - 8/28/2007 7:23:27 PM
- I've watched this discussion... - SDAI-Tech1 - 8/24/2007 9:19:16 PM
  - On safety nets - TB - 8/24/2007 9:34:38 PM
    - re: On safety nets - SDAI-Tech1 - 8/25/2007 4:46:16 AM
      - Post-Castro Cuba - Dr. Capitalism - 8/28/2007 1:39:48 PM
      - Much of what you say is happening now, with our wonderful private system. - Mary Anne - 8/25/2007 12:36:52 PM
        
        Not that much. - TB - 8/25/2007 6:46:43 PM
        
        Don't lose track of my original point - TB - 8/25/2007 7:21:02 PM
        
        Motivation - azstrummer - 8/26/2007 6:08:15 AM
        
        Man did you hit the nail on the head there! (n/t) - Lindy - 8/26/2007 3:56:43 PM
        
        re: Motivation - TB - 8/26/2007 7:00:38 AM
        
        So your contention should be then - azstrummer - 8/26/2007 4:56:24 PM
        
        Bingo! - SDAI-Tech1 - 8/26/2007 8:07:14 AM
        
        You can pretty much assume - azstrummer - 8/26/2007 5:05:12 PM
        
        correction - Mary Anne - 8/25/2007 12:43:03 PM
- Looking at it more closely, it may be mostly about the money - TB - 8/23/2007 6:39:57 PM
- Demonization as an "Art" form - The Silent Majority - 8/23/2007 4:12:05 PM
  - "in-utero, ex-utero, what's the difference.." - Lindy - 8/23/2007 6:28:32 PM
  - re: Demonization as an "Art" form - azstrummer - 8/23/2007 4:38:27 PM
- You guys are all missing the point about Nationalized health care. - ER - 8/23/2007 2:45:06 PM
  - Insightful, but... - McFly - 8/23/2007 6:08:05 PM
  - Nice judo move... - TB - 8/23/2007 5:45:21 PM
    - My problem is it won't cover dentistry... - TAFKASE - 8/23/2007 9:51:42 PM
    - Leapin' lizard, crouching kitty. - ER - 8/23/2007 6:54:32 PM
      - re: Leapin' lizard, crouching kitty. - TB - 8/23/2007 7:14:45 PM
        
        Atlanta's burning, Miz Scarlett - ER - 8/23/2007 7:58:35 PM
        
        re: Atlanta's burning, Miz Scarlett - TB - 8/23/2007 11:26:52 PM
        
        re: Atlanta's burning, Miz Scarlett - ER - 8/24/2007 12:36:28 AM
        
        re: Atlanta's burning, Miz Scarlett - TB - 8/24/2007 3:27:48 AM
        
        Cripe Tom, would you respond to the person and not the issue - azstrummer - 8/24/2007 4:49:20 AM
        
        What do you want? - TB - 8/24/2007 5:20:40 AM
        
        Fake liberal sympathy - azstrummer - 8/24/2007 2:34:46 PM
        
        You really don't understand the point, do you? - TB - 8/24/2007 6:24:47 PM
        
        No I don't understand you. - azstrummer - 8/24/2007 7:33:28 PM
        
        And on jugular veins... - TB - 8/24/2007 9:20:12 PM
        
        re: No I don't understand you. - TB - 8/24/2007 8:10:43 PM
        
        re: Atlanta's burning, Miz Scarlett - Lindy - 8/23/2007 10:40:29 PM
  - THAT is a fascinating point. - Bowser - 8/23/2007 4:15:02 PM
- re: Bush the Child Killer - TB - 8/21/2007 11:04:54 PM
  - The issue is no health care - azstrummer - 8/23/2007 1:13:54 AM
    - "Cold and calculating heart." Actually, I use my brain. - TB - 8/23/2007 4:26:43 AM
      - Inadequate - Robert - 8/23/2007 5:50:19 PM
        
        Oh, Lord... - TB - 8/23/2007 6:06:50 PM
        
        Okay, maybe if I ignore all the foundational stuff... - TB - 8/23/2007 6:24:32 PM
        
        re: Okay, maybe if I ignore all the foundational stuff... - Robert - 8/23/2007 10:26:46 PM
        
        Foundations - TB - 8/23/2007 11:57:25 PM
        
        "This argument isn't going to be settled here." - Robert - 8/24/2007 5:09:29 PM
        
        re: Foundations - TB - 8/24/2007 7:02:33 PM
        
        Flightless bumblebees - Robert - 8/28/2007 5:23:33 PM
        
        Bumblebees. Again. - TB - 8/28/2007 7:20:58 PM
        
        "your thinking processes aren't that much different from Lindy's. " - Lindy - 8/29/2007 4:45:17 PM
        
        What hit me in your statement - azstrummer - 8/24/2007 7:47:31 PM
        
        And just curious... - TB - 8/24/2007 7:05:10 PM
      - No healthcare is "free" - Lindy - 8/23/2007 3:07:47 PM
      - Facts and figures - azstrummer - 8/23/2007 4:53:17 AM
        
        re: Facts and figures - TB - 8/23/2007 5:39:07 AM
        
        Let's see - azstrummer - 8/23/2007 12:25:01 PM
        
        re: Let's see - TB - 8/23/2007 5:52:26 PM
        
        Still... - McFly - 8/23/2007 2:26:06 PM
        
        Not perfect - azstrummer - 8/23/2007 4:31:34 PM
        
        Not by any stretch - McFly - 8/23/2007 5:16:08 PM
        
        Well said - azstrummer - 8/23/2007 8:13:09 PM
    - "You've a cold and calculating heart there..........." - Lindy - 8/23/2007 3:44:37 AM
  - "As the Governor of Oregon said..." - TB - 8/21/2007 11:06:30 PM
    - And the problem with that is? - Bowser - 8/22/2007 3:47:26 AM
      - re: And the problem with that is? - TB - 8/22/2007 5:19:58 AM
        
        Universal Health Care - "enslaving the population to the State."???? - Bowser - 8/22/2007 3:50:43 PM
        
        Given your inability to think in the abstract, you're probably right. (n/t) - TB - 8/22/2007 4:26:29 PM
        
        You are absolutely correct. Plagued me all my life. - Bowser - 8/23/2007 2:47:16 AM
        
        For the rest of you... - TB - 8/22/2007 4:37:36 PM
        
        Reality - Bowser - 8/22/2007 6:00:43 PM
        
        Let me see if I'm following you... - TB - 8/22/2007 7:13:14 PM
        
        No. The "security" you Conservatives seek is enslavement. (n/t) - Bowser the Brief - 8/22/2007 8:09:53 PM
        
        See five posts above... - TB - 8/22/2007 8:26:42 PM
        
        BTW - enslavement of both US and others. - Bowser - 8/22/2007 9:19:34 PM
        
        Iraq is still a lot more free than it used to be. - TB - 8/23/2007 3:35:22 AM
        
        160,000 foreign troops not subject to Iraqi law. 80,000 mercenaries. - Bowser - 8/23/2007 4:06:51 AM
        
        They're specialized "terrorists" - Lindy - 8/23/2007 3:09:22 PM
- SCHIP? - Lindy - 8/21/2007 10:45:25 PM

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