Kurt Ullman wrote:
In article ,
wrote:
I emphasized and capitalized "MEANS OF PRODUCTION" after all that's
where the disagreement lies. Note that "factors of production" are not
the same as "means of production".
NOW you tell me. Sometimes I am wrong with great vigor by forgetting
about context sensitivity.
One would have thought that a rabid capitalist like yourself would
understand that what the drug companies do or propose is the socialist
way: eventually make everyone pay the same for their drugs!
Getting away from my earlier mispronouncement (and how that allowed
the conversation to go off on tangents that had nothing to do with the
original discussion--my bad), how is what you suggest socialist? . I can
find no requirement that everybody pay the same. Also, there certainly
is no plan on the part of the pharm to invest control of anything in the
community as a whole.
I'm not suggesting that it's something controlled or even engineered
by the drug companies; just that what they're doing (funding one drug
from an earlier one) will eventually cause all of us whether we suffer
from a "cheap" illness or an "expensive" one to pay the same for our
drugs. Isn't the idea of one premium (and this is just the drug part)
at the heart of the objection to the one-payer health care plan which
the right labeled as socialist?
I guess you've been hung by your own jockstrap ... or something like
that.
Happens from time to time. Most of the time I am right (grin).
Well, big of you to admit it. There's hope for the world yet.