Originally posted by KazetNagorraI don't know, I was fine paying the 50 bucks for copaxone,, now the co-pay is 1400.00?
Doesn't work in the health care market, though, because there is often little choice, people are prepared to pay anything they can to stay healthy, and people generally understand very little about medicine so they don't know what they are buying and can't compare the quality of health care providers.
Works fine in the case of cosmetic surgery, alternative medicine, etc. though.
I did get a grant this year from some company which i am very grateful for...
Originally posted by KazetNagorraWell, I guess we'll never find out. There has not been a time in my life that there wasn't an inherent conflict of interest in deciding what medical care to offer and how much to charge. And I think we're already at a point, or very close to it where people can even get sex change operations at everyone else's expense.
Doesn't work in the health care market, though, because there is often little choice, people are prepared to pay anything they can to stay healthy, and people generally understand very little about medicine so they don't know what they are buying and can't compare the quality of health care providers.
Works fine in the case of cosmetic surgery, alternative medicine, etc. though.
Originally posted by quackquackAnd as Bastiate so eloquently pointed out, the government taking money and spending it elsewhere doesn't create more wealth. What is seen is where it is spent. What is unseen is from whence it is taken, and the use is might have otherwise had.
Spending other people's money (e.g. the government) is also always easier than spending your own. No need to worry the price.
Originally posted by normbenignBastiat apparently never saw a railroad or an interstate highway system.
And as Bastiate so eloquently pointed out, the government taking money and spending it elsewhere doesn't create more wealth. What is seen is where it is spent. What is unseen is from whence it is taken, and the use is might have otherwise had.
Originally posted by no1marauderBastiate probably could never have conceived of a boondoggle like the "Big Dig" in Boston. But what you see now if you visit Boston is the great new tunnel to Logan airport, and the new freeway tunnels and ramps.
Bastiat apparently never saw a railroad or an interstate highway system.
What you don't see is the millions of Americans that are driving on bumpy, unrepaired roads and dangerously unmaintained bridges, so that Boston could enjoy that over priced monument to Ted Kennedy.