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To: bentway who wrote (760128)	12/30/2013 3:20:58 AM
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>> I don't think my health should be linked in any way to market economics. Then you're not even remotely realistic about what can reasonably be done. While it would be possible to decouple health care from market economics, you might as well return to the days of barbers doing the bleeding and the best surgeons being those who can saw off a limb the fastest. It is market economics -- and specifically those in the US -- that have brought us all of the good stuff medicine has to offer us. You think GE is going to develop new imaging technology with no market for purchasers? You think drugs like Tamoxofin or even Advil would have even been developed without a ready market? The most recent data puts the cost of bringing a drug to market in the US at 1.25 Billion. That isn't going to happen unless buyers are accessible through markets. And in fact, we wouldn't have what we do have were it not for direct marketing to consumers. I have no interesting in stepping backward in the evolution of medicine & technologies. >> Nor do I think the defense of the country should be linked to market economics - we probably agree here! My belief is that where you have a choice between government price controls and markets, markets are generally the better choice. Unfortunately, in the military area we don't have functioning markets and cannot ever expect to have. So, it is a different thing IMO.