ObamaCare works ... already!
ObamaCare works ... already!
Welcome to the new age of Obamacare. Shortages, waiting lists, emergency room overflow, unavailable doctors. . . and the list goes on. . . One crisis after another. . .
What causes shortages? A planned economy. Not a free market. Repeal 0bamacare now!
A lot of this is the old problem of excessive corporate consolidation, which is affecting a whole slew of US industries. Recent decades have shown that oligopolies can be just as bad as monopolies in this regard.
One of the worst of these oligopolies is with “the media”, which is a good way to describe the small handful of companies that control TV, movies, radio, newspapers, magazines, book publishing, bookselling, and broad segments of the Internet.
And for all the breast beating about the breakup of AT&T years ago, everyone of us profited handsomely from the explosion of competition and technological innovation that happened because of it.
Every time I turn on the TV, a lawyer is wanting you to call a “hotline” to sue some drug manufacturer.
Nutshell reasons.
The manufacturers must be nationalized to end the problem of market dominated supply/s
Crisis, it's such an under used term of late...
Pediatricians would rather saw off a patient’s leg than use these effective drugs any way.
Older drugs means off patent, correct? Therefore, price is driven down to competitive level.
Presumably, any drug manufacturer anywhere in the world could supply the market.
O.K., every now and then something happens like a strike that disrupts supply. But, this would be a temporary or isolated problem.
So, what would cause a continuing shortage of a commodity that any drug manufacturer in the entire world could supply????
Did somebody say government?
And don’t forget litigation attorneys.
Oh puhleeze! I dont believe this for a nanosecond.
Thanks, Wapo, for an important article. Every now and then, you guys print something of value.
Our head hospital Pharmacist recently told me that there is a shortage of Morphine.... MORPHINE for God’s sake. There’s no sensible reason in the world for a shortage of that medicine. It’s easily manufactured from the ‘Poppy’ plant that grows like a weed, and can do so in most parts of the world.
All of this is probably due to meddling on the part of .gov(the DEA setting ridiculously low quotas) and pharmaceutical companies playing the JIT distribution systems for all they’re worth. A good part of this can probably be solved by having more FREEDOM in the marketplace.
When I see those 'Sue Them Now' ads on TV my head almost explodes. Every drug, chemical, or molecule known to mankind has some type of side affect for some people. Peanuts being example number one. Bee Sting Venom at number two.
Everyone who doesn't live in a cave knows both are Deadly to some people. So who would these maggot Lawyers like to sue for that side effect, God?
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