I've received two comments concerning the entry of Nov 5th on Health care. Since comments tend to be buried here, I thought I'd make an entry so their comments could be on the main page.
First is from Axinar (axinar(at)yahoo(dot)com). He wrote:
"It is a bit of an ethical problem ... and one of the nasty side effects of an open market economy.
"So long as people can get just about as much health care as they need without having to write the checks directly, this will mean a disproportiate number of dollars will be chasing health care vs. say, soybeans.
"It almost seems that health care should be an area taken out of the free market because way too much unethical stuff happens so long as it is part of the free market. For instance plain injected HDL might be quite effective in treating heart disease but no one will ever launch the studies because plain HDL cannot be patented."
Annie (surfgal_annie(at)yahoo(dot)com) also responded to that entry and wrote:
"Raising taxes always seem to be the answer for every new idea the US wants to implement; however, I'm sure this program could have been rolled out successfully with the 87.5 billion loan-free buckaroos we handed over to Iraq and eliminating all the perks our wonderful elected officials receive (i.e. cars)... "
Posted by Dean
at 9:09 PM CST
Updated: Saturday, 15 November 2003 9:21 PM CST