Posted by jack cain on Thursday, September 20, 2007 at 17:30:06 :
In Reply to: Can/US health care and the Can currency posted by George in Michigan on Thursday, September 20, 2007 at 14:47:50 :
Wisconsin legislature is considering requiring that everybody be insured. The monthly cost to a family of four would be $2,000 per month. Not my definiton of affordable.
Ronald Reagan is quoted as saying the words that Americans fear hearing most are "I'm from the government and I'm here to help"
I am not a Randian acolyte. However I do believe that access to afordable health care as a right is countered by the 14th amendment forbiding slavery.
The right to price ones goods and services is a fundamental basis of our economy. To single out the goods and services of the health care industry is myopic and in the long run counterproductive.
Without the profit incentive advances in medicine will slow. Men are not saints and neither are the researchers who make advances possible.
In the past few years we have seen the development of medicines that are nothing short of miraculous, think of Gleevac for example.
Within 5 years we will see individual sequencing of genomes at a cost of a few hundred dollars.
I want to see that fount continue spewing forth and indeed the market is responding. Here in the state of Georgia, with a prescription, you can get antibiotics for free from the Publix Grocery Pharmacy. Walmart has many drugs for as low as $4.00.
We are spoiled and yet we clamor for more and for it to be free as well.
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