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Post by asiaticdarkperson on Mar 30, 2012 15:40:57 GMT -5
Is the state responsible for providing free healthcare and education to its citizens?
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Post by asiaticdarkperson on Mar 30, 2012 16:00:32 GMT -5
Should people's health and education be treated as a business?
Why do we pay taxes?
What is the net profit of drug companies? By what logic should those profits be the property of only a few people, rather than all people?
The way I see it, drug companies (all companies) should ideally be making just enough money to pay all their employees, and basically to get their work done. I don't see why there must be millions of dollars of "profit" at the end of the year, going into the pockets of a handful of select people.
I don't understand why anyone should be making any special profit at all. I understand that corporations are the result of the state handing over the industry (all of it) to the private sector. Still, corporations are meant to be providing services to people at lower prices than the state. (at least in Iran)
Corporations are supposed to be providing services to people.
The healthcare industry and the insurance industry, between the two of them are IMO the biggest scam ever pulled in the history of mankind.
Healthcare should be free. There's no reason for it not to be. The state, which is essentially the collective, is responsible for keeping itself healthy (and educated.) It's not that complicated.
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Post by The Late Mitchell Warren on Apr 1, 2012 14:30:20 GMT -5
I basically view tax money as your fee so that the government doesn't try to kill you. Any lie as to paying for the stuff our society needs is just bullshit.
Healthcare is definitely a scam. Of course, if healthcare is free it is compromised healthcare. I think a realistic solution is to allow free healthcare but also give the option of paid healthcare. But no, I guess that's just too fair or something.
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Post by billthebutcher on Apr 2, 2012 1:48:14 GMT -5
Health should be a right. Therefore, making it anything but free goes against that right. A poor person has as much right to treatment as Bill Gates, and making the possession of insurance a prerequisite for treatment violates that right.
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