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Originally Posted by Cynthetiq
Companies have been caught colluding and conspiring before, most recently the memory chip makers for price fixing memory.
Anti-trust suits brought AT&T into smaller more competitive companies, supposedly to bring down the price of telecommunications. Yet still I pay more for my POTS line than ever before.
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Wait... so you're agreeing with me? I.. I'm shocked!
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Originally Posted by Cynthetiq
Businesses are and should be allowed to price as they see fit. If they collude together to price fix then that is problematic by itself. Just because I want a 2 liter bottle of coke to be $.99 doesn't make it so when it sells fo $1.89 normally and occassionally it is on sale at varioious other places for $.99. It doesn't mean that because all the local stores are charging $1.89 that price fixing is afoot or even that the manufacturer is trying to rip people off. On the contrary it is again about choices.
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I understand that, but I think it's more like "Let's all charge as much as possible without making our customers leave the country to get health care" then "Let's charge a bit more by ourselves". We're not talking about just Pepsi being expensive. We're talking about Pepsi, Coke, Shasta, and every other brand of soda being very expensive, all at once. Only we're not talking about soda, we're talking about health care.
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Originally Posted by Cynthetiq
I'd also like to see just how these 45M Americans that seem to be those that don't have insurance but have 20" rims on their cars (not necessarily new) with booming stereos. Again, I state that they choose to not spend that money on healthcare but instead on new rims, car stereos, latest cellphones, newest ipods and large screen TVs.
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All 45 million of them have spinners and pinewoods?