Trumpet (04-02-2020)
What if a for-profit company comes up with a vaccine, but it's run by somebody like that Schkreli guy, and they decide this is the ultimate get-rich tool.
What if they get a vaccine and decide to charge $50,000 a dose?
(Even if it only costs them pennies to make it)
Hey, it's their technology.
Capitalism says they can charge whatever they want for it.
Insurance companies could never afford to cover everybody for that. They could call it 'experimental,' and not pay.
Pay up and you can live. No money? Take your chances.
The rich could afford it, no problem. But the middle? Only if they give up their life's savings.
Should people cash in everything, just to stay alive?
And the rest may rest in peace?
Could happen.
What's to stop it?
How could the free market possibly serve a population in times like these?
It is a reason that health care should be done not for profit, but to serve we the people.
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Trumpet (04-02-2020)
Maybe it would be more profitable if they charged about $10,000.
That way, they could get a lot more people to pay.
And even the poor could go to rip-off payday lenders and get on the hook for that much.
Even put the bass boat up for collateral.
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Phantasmal (04-02-2020), Tacomaman (04-02-2020), Trumpet (04-02-2020)
If anyone can make a dollar off of Americans dying, tRUMP will figure out how.
Please leave your Trump 2024 signs in your yard. That way, my dog will know where to take a dump.
christiefan915 (04-02-2020), PoliTalker (04-02-2020), Trumpet (04-02-2020)
We need a big powerful government to stand up to big powerful capitalism.
Big powerful capitalism represents the rich and powerful.
We, the People have the government to represent us, but we have to make it do that or else big powerful capitalism will use it against us. Happens all the time.
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Trumpet (04-02-2020)
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