tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2222630007427380394.post3110616812194629085..comments2023-12-20T04:18:41.617-06:00Comments on The Hunting of the Snark: Less Tall Megan: Drugs and TaxesSusan of Texashttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00076915322771385454noreply@blogger.comBlogger8125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2222630007427380394.post-24005406311586014172013-05-26T12:44:46.336-05:002013-05-26T12:44:46.336-05:00Excepting herself, of course, since the rules for ...Excepting herself, of course, since the rules for her class are different.Susan of Texashttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00076915322771385454noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2222630007427380394.post-5524615584857992032013-05-26T02:49:09.514-05:002013-05-26T02:49:09.514-05:00Hmm…
'It's also possible that it's ti...Hmm…<br /><br />'It's also possible that it's time for a broader rethink: why are private insurance companies, rather than the government itself, providing payment for health care? The answer seems to be that health care can be very expensive. But universal health care is cheaper and more effective. Medicare and Medicaid are already funded by taxpayers. And emergency health care also gets paid for anyway by taxpayers, who would get a better deal if basic preventative care were offered and simple ailments were not treated in the emergency room. The tradeoff hardly seems worth the obvious problems with effectively asking private industry to act as a parasitic middleman adding no actual value to the health care system.'<br /><br />(McMegan doesn't want the government to provide any useful services to citizens; she only wants it to subsidize private industry.) <br />Batocchiohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02193752396025012825noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2222630007427380394.post-52467977711123938692013-05-22T06:17:38.890-05:002013-05-22T06:17:38.890-05:00One of my favorite McArdle dodges is the way she s...One of my favorite McArdle dodges is the way she says drug profits aren't excessive because their profit margin is small. Dishonesty with numbers in the service of the rich!<br /><br />By the way, for about a minute, every time I clicked on her drug article I was redirected to an ad for ordering drugs on the Internet. Susan of Texashttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00076915322771385454noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2222630007427380394.post-76151331192279070212013-05-21T22:53:58.166-05:002013-05-21T22:53:58.166-05:00Personally, I'd be happy to see clinical trial...Personally, I'd be happy to see clinical trials paid for with taxpayer dollars... assuming that the resulting drug patent is also owned by the taxpayers. <br /><br />We as a society already pay for a lot of the fundamental research that goes on in pharma companies -- why not just gut the whole system, remove the patent process altogether, and turn pharma companies into little more than pill factories employing organic chemists to find ever-more-efficient synthetic routes? (Itself a difficult and cutting-edge scientific process.)<br /><br />Give pharma companies the option to either pay for their own damned research, tip to tail, or else accept public dollars, but the acceptance of public money anywhere in the chain means the resulting product is public domain, meaning they'll end up charging a few cents per pill more than the cost of the ingredients used to make it.Daniel Harperhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11307806109764817356noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2222630007427380394.post-16942562708749048062013-05-21T21:51:16.989-05:002013-05-21T21:51:16.989-05:00She's a reptiloid...that explains everything.
...She's a reptiloid...that explains everything.<br />~ifthethunderdontgetya™³²®©https://www.blogger.com/profile/06252371815131259831noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2222630007427380394.post-13879921585968619032013-05-21T20:42:22.502-05:002013-05-21T20:42:22.502-05:00"Consistency is the hob- goblin of little min..."Consistency is the hob- goblin of little minds.Susan of Texashttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00076915322771385454noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2222630007427380394.post-55026507474929511722013-05-21T20:04:08.809-05:002013-05-21T20:04:08.809-05:00Gosh tariffs were great. BUT FREE TRADE!Gosh tariffs were great. BUT FREE TRADE!Substance McGravitashttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04118764163822188800noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2222630007427380394.post-39016182241064190822013-05-21T17:25:18.073-05:002013-05-21T17:25:18.073-05:00Corporations are exactly like people.
Except when...Corporations are exactly like people.<br /><br />Except when they're not. I mean, that's obvious.<br /><br />Also, the government already pays the basic research costs of pharmaceutical companies, why shouldn't they pay the development costs, too? That way the companies could save money on accounting by only having to count up their profit! Efficiency, y'all!<br /><br />Susan, how do you do this every day? I'm getting to where I can't even read the shorters without feeling physically ill. Are we *sure* Megs isn't a reptilian invader from Arcturus?Lurking Canadiannoreply@blogger.com