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Politics : A US National Health Care System? -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Alastair McIntosh who wrote (40336)	9/30/2015 1:16:32 PM
From: TimF	Respond to of 42652

For a new medicine people got by without it until now. Mostly without life being "brutish and short" (at least in modern times in rich countries). In any case "brutish and short" is still existing, so maybe these goods are so "existential". Without all sorts of ordinary goods, that are normally provided without price controls (and that aren't provided as well with price controls) life will be rather brutish and typically shorter. The main change upwards from "brutish and short" was because of the opportunity and wealth created by free markets. Nothing esp. "existential" about that medicine. Not to mention that far fewer medicines would exist if price controls had been imposed on medicines, so if it is somehow "existential" (and the whole category of medicines or even medical treatment as a whole is far less so then say food) then that might be a rather telling argument against price controls.