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Completely deregulate the drug industry?
Let me get this straight. You would suggest that consumers should let the market decide which drugs are good and which ones are bad. So when a drug company puts a drug on the market and claims it does "x" the drug will only become accepted by the mainstream consumer when many others purchase it too.
But in the case of drugs this is not as simple as it works or doesn't work. In the case of drugs you get things like Thalidomide or other weird side-effects. A capitalist system wouldn't necessarily check for side-effects before rushing to market. But of course the early users can week out the bad drugs right?
You can still be a capitalist and recognize that regulation of the marketplace is essential. The key is working to make regulations stronger and less vulnerable to corruption.
The insanity of the US healthcare system is not going to be solved by less government intervention. It just isn't going to happen. The real answer is in some form of Universal health care.
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