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Politics
A US National Health Care System?
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40152"Obamacare expansion gives states a reason to cut programs for the most neegamesmistress18/2/2015
4015150 Years Later, Medicaid And Medicare Still Spend Us Into Oblivion A Senate Fingamesmistress27/31/2015
40150King v. Burwell Expanded Obamacare Even More Than You Know by Michael Cannon Jgamesmistress-7/29/2015
40149Looks like some decent news out of California on rate increases... Calif. ObamaJohn Koligman-7/27/2015
40148We should all feel very secure that our private health information is now in elei-node17/27/2015
40147I do appreciate the reference to the rule of holes; there is also "throwingi-node-7/27/2015
40146<i> I would especially want to recover my R&D investment if, for insLane317/27/2015
40145I haven't seen any definition of sunk costs other than the one I am using. AAlastair McIntosh-7/27/2015
40144>> Well, I am not an accountant, or a drug company, but it seems to me, i-node17/27/2015
40143>>But as you pointed out you WOULD use the R&D investment in a drug iJack Be Quick-7/27/2015
40142RE: those are sunk costs and have little to do with pricing You don't underFJB27/27/2015
40141<i>And that is, by definition, correct.</i> I don't buy the noLane337/27/2015
40140<i>However, I'm not sure it has anything related to the definition of Lane3-7/27/2015
40139>> But it's the notion that drug prices should ignore R&D costs ti-node-7/27/2015
40138>> If R&D were a capital expenditure it would not be fully expensed i-node-7/27/2015
40137I don't see anything to disagree with in your post. (Except for "No, itAlastair McIntosh-7/27/2015
40136I understand your point and the author's. It is just wrong If so, all of tAlastair McIntosh-7/27/2015
40135The title of that bit was "Impact on Investment Decision." In the texLane3-7/27/2015
40134>> Kind of a 'bitter pill' for Americans with Hep C if they starti-node-7/27/2015
40133Kind of a 'bitter pill' for Americans with Hep C if they start dying becJohn Koligman-7/26/2015
40132>> It is a textbook case of sunk costs. The Wikipedia article notwithstani-node17/26/2015
40131> That statement doesn't make a lot of sense. It makes perfect sense. ItAlastair McIntosh-7/26/2015
40130Average wages measured in "stuff", or stuff's proxy, dollars, are Alighieri-7/26/2015
40129She really nailed it with that article (as usual).i-node-7/25/2015
40128political apparatus keeps the US in the 19th century on (now very) obvious natioJoe Btfsplk17/25/2015
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