That Guy Who Price-Gouged AIDS Patients Did It to Kids with Kidney Disease

[Admiral Yi]

So?

So Canadians are free riding.  I thought I was making this pretty clear.

[LaCroix]

as an american, i'm OK with the US making necessary sacrifices to benefit the world

[Razgovory]

So?

So Canadians are free riding.  I thought I was making this pretty clear.

You have a weird obsession with the idea that someone, somewhere is free riding.

[Eddie Teach]

as an american, i'm OK with the US making necessary sacrifices to benefit the world

If we do, it should be on the backs of taxpayers rather than consumers.

[Admiral Yi]

You have a weird obsession with the idea that someone, somewhere is free riding.

So ossum

[Razgovory]

You have a weird obsession with the idea that someone, somewhere is free riding.

So ossum

I'm curious though, does you outrage at free riding extend to the banning of open shops and heavy punishments for environmental damage?

[Admiral Yi]

I'm curious though, does you outrage at free riding extend to the banning of open shops and heavy punishments for environmental damage?

Which outrage would that be Raz?

[Razgovory]

I'm curious though, does you outrage at free riding extend to the banning of open shops and heavy punishments for environmental damage?

Which outrage would that be Raz?

I can't help fee that you are unhappy about the idea of Free Riders.  Posting history indicate you are deeply concerned about the "free rider problem".

[Fate]

as an american, i'm OK with the US making necessary sacrifices to benefit the world

If we do, it should be on the backs of taxpayers rather than consumers.

What makes you think it's not already on the backs of taxpayers?

Medicare, Medicaid, Tricare, and Obamacare probably add up to be the vast majority of healthcare spending dollars in the US.

[Admiral Yi]

I can't help fee that you are unhappy about the idea of Free Riders.  Posting history indicate you are deeply concerned about the "free rider problem".

I thought I was supposed to be obsessed and outraged.

[Tonitrus]

as an american, i'm OK with the US making necessary sacrifices to benefit the world

If we do, it should be on the backs of taxpayers rather than consumers.

What makes you think it's not already on the backs of taxpayers?

Medicare, Medicaid, Tricare, and Obamacare probably add up to be the vast majority of healthcare spending dollars in the US.

I've always thought that the problem isn't so much that we don't have government-provided healthcare, but that we mostly do, it's just a completely effed-up, half-ass'ed system.  Or maybe 2/3's-ass'ed.

[grumbler]

I think that, for free riding to occur, you'd have to show that the phrma companies were willing to sell to Canadians (and others) at near-marginal-cost, and that the Canadians and others knew those costs well enough to free-ride.  I don't think either case is proven.  It is entirely possible that the different costs of drugs is driven by different willingness to pay, and that occurs in any market.

Not that the pharma market is really a market as we understand it.  Restrictions on market entry and on buyer entry make this a highly distorted market not very subject to market generalizations.

[DGuller]

 

[Eddie Teach]

What makes you think it's not already on the backs of taxpayers?

Medicare, Medicaid, Tricare, and Obamacare probably add up to be the vast majority of healthcare spending dollars in the US.

That I'm not on any of those. 

Not that this necessarily has any relation to the costs of drugs, but I just paid 1200 bucks for new contact lenses. 3 years ago, they were 750.

[DGuller]

Not that this necessarily has any relation to the costs of drugs, but I just paid 1200 bucks for new contact lenses. 3 years ago, they were 750.

Hopefully the new ones will be more gentle on the eyes.