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Message 24 of 71 (423759)
09-24-2007 8:26 AM
Reply to: Message 15 by Hyroglyphx
09-23-2007 5:54 PM


Re: Peddlers and profiteers
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In a socialist healthcare setting, there is no incentive to come out with the latest and greatest drugs/treatments, especially since funding is limited.
Except, you know, that it would be helping people.
Maybe, if the American culture didn't train everyone, from infancy, to be mainly selfish and concerned with money and and the accumulation material goods, and instead trained them to understand that wealth and things aren't important but helping one's fellow humans is, there would be "incentive" to develop great treatments and drugs.
Funny that the country with, as you put it, the most incentive to come out with the "latest and greatest" treatments and drugs is also the country that seems to not be bothered that 46 million of it's citizens have no healthcare insurance.

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