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Sen Weiner Co**slaps this debate on Fox

Our man Weiner destroyed Fox's complaining about length of time for public option's estimate costs. I can't think of any better title for it.

  • Glitchen
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  • Date 10/22/2009 7:33:49 AM
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Rosenkruez : LVL 21: VP 3: said:

Rosenkruez

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33 days 5 hours ago...

I`m all for free health care but an Economist can tell you that free health care is detrimental to the medical field. With free health care, there would be no incentive for drug industries to create new medicines. Free health care is a great thing, but we should keep the greater good in mind when we make our decisions, some of them might have dire consequences even though we mean well.

Presto : LVL 41: VP 4.9: said:

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33 days 3 hours ago...

You know what the incentive to create new medicines is?

HELPING PEOPLE

When it stopped being about helping people and started being about making money then system needs to be changed.

Glitchen : LVL 39: VP 4.7: said:

Glitchen

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33 days 1 hour ago...

I don`t understand Rosenkruez. Why would "For profit" industries want to make any drug that CURES anyone. Their incentive would be to keep the people on as many medicines as possible. But with a social/government paid medicine, paying out for medicines would be a cost/loss, so there would be an incentive to make preventative medicine and CURE the problem rather than raking up a bill.

All of these point is void anyways because it`s a option for a public health INSURANCE, not health care.

Rosenkruez : LVL 22: VP 3.1: said:

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25 days 3 hours ago...

Presto, Corporations are not enticed by helping people, I wish it were, but that`s not how our capitalist market works. Corporations don`t try to make bold statements or undertake great humanitarian efforts, they look after business. What`s cool about our markets is that it aligns incentives in such a way that those people looking out for their best interest leads to a thriving and ever-improving standard of living for most (not all) members of society.
I hear a lot of people talking about how the system needs to be changed, but no one ever gives solutions as to what. Our system is the best because it works in our favor in the short and long-term, but nothing is perfect which includes our economic system.

Glitchen, that`s not even realistic. First the doctors would probably have to be on the corporations payroll, second, the medicines they put them on would have to have relevance to their sickness. If you think about it logically what they would have to go through to do that, it`s impossible.
As far as the corporations are concerned there would be no incentive to make any kind of medicine, there are no profits in it for them if there`s public health care.

But yeah you`re right, in the end this is about public insurance, not health care lol, just thought I`d give my 2 cents on the public health care issue.

People need to be better informed about Economics. As an economics major, it`s annoying when people say things they are clueless about. If my major teaches me anything, it teaches me how ignorant I was about whatever subject we happen to be discussing during our lectures.

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