01-28-2017, 04:27 AM
(01-28-2017, 12:36 AM)Warren Dew Wrote:(01-27-2017, 11:55 PM):Ragnarök_62 Wrote: My guess is that Big Pharma also bribes docs to "sell" their stuff.
Yes. Free lunches, junkets, disease "awareness" grants to increase (mis)diagnoses, lap dances, multimillion dollar speaking fees ... it's a racket:
http://theinfluence.org/you-wont-believe...ill-drugs/
People work for who they get paid by. Doctors get paid by health insurance companies, pharmaceutical companies, employers, the government - almost everyone except the patient. That's the problem with third party payer.
Exactly right. Getting the economic illiterates on the left to understand that is virtually impossible. Here is an example of what happens when patients pay for their own medical care.
At this point a logical person would be asking: What is government doing to screw up incentives so much? Logic and reason is in short supply these days, particularly on the left.
Democracy is the theory that the common people know what they want, and deserve to get it good and hard. -- H.L. Mencken
If one rejects laissez faire on account of man's fallibility and moral weakness, one must for the same reason also reject every kind of government action. -- Ludwig von Mises
If one rejects laissez faire on account of man's fallibility and moral weakness, one must for the same reason also reject every kind of government action. -- Ludwig von Mises