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Originally Posted by Charlatan
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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Corruption is the key word in this whole drug scam. I don't think you give the Average Consumer enough credit. The whole system is set up to reward bad behavior. Bad behavior at the FDA, Bad Behavior by the drug companies and individual people not feeling any need to take personal responsibility for health care costs because Uncle Sam is going to pick up the bill.
By privatizing health care, every bit and particle of it, a very quick sifting would take place in terms of what procedures and drugs are truly helping people, costs for surgeries would regulate down to a manageable level, and the scam artists on all fronts (Insurance fraud, billing fraud, legal fraud) would be better exposed if consumers had to directly pay individual doctors for individual care.
Why hasn't Lasik eye surgery gone the way of all the rest of American Surgery and priced out of the range of the average consumer. Because no insurance company will pay for it. Does that mean no one in America gets lasik? Nope, my own sister in law who works as a massage therapist and is always on the verge of poverty was able to cough up the $2,000.00 to get this great surgery. Why? Because it was important to her.
I feel the same way about Elective C-Sections. If women want them, fine. Let them pay for them like they would any other elective surgery.
You watch, as we get closer to getting socialized in america the docs will all of a sudden raise the prices on EVERYTHING to set in stone the money that we the people will have to fork out to pay for that nationalized health care.
Childbirth costs have soared for years, but I predict them soaring out of sight before this next election, so that when a congress is put in place that will actually vote it into being, as it is heralded as the best thing since sliced bread, the taxpayers will get fully soaked for the abomination of the allopathic birth machine being funded as is for the duration.
Freebirthers are a threat in the way that homeschoolers are a threat to the education establishment. Homeschoolers pay out of pocket what a nationalized education does for ten grand a kid per year. They do it cheaper, often better, and with the second generation of homeschooling families now coming along it has hit the mainstream.
Freebirth is where homeschool was in the early 70's.
I don't think it will take as long for us to go mainstream, especially since America has a death wish with this rush to nationalized health care. Assumption being that allopathy is the absolute best choice for health. Leaving out of the equation all of the amazing things that can be offered to consumers in the form of chiropractic, homeopathic, and a variety of other healing modalities.
I just want to make certain that we are not legislated out of the picture. Families who are ready to birth a child will increasingly need a safe place to land as things contort out of control over the next few decades.
Freebirth fits the bill to a T.
Jenny