Finally, A Vaccine! But Capitalism Makes It Too Expensive?

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PoliTalker

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What if a for-profit company comes up with a vaccine, but it's run by somebody like that Schkreli guy, and they decide this is the ultimate get-rich tool.

What if they get a vaccine and decide to charge $50,000 a dose?

(Even if it only costs them pennies to make it)

Hey, it's their technology.

Capitalism says they can charge whatever they want for it.

Insurance companies could never afford to cover everybody for that. They could call it 'experimental,' and not pay.

Pay up and you can live. No money? Take your chances.

The rich could afford it, no problem. But the middle? Only if they give up their life's savings.

Should people cash in everything, just to stay alive?

And the rest may rest in peace?

Could happen.

What's to stop it?

How could the free market possibly serve a population in times like these?

It is a reason that health care should be done not for profit, but to serve we the people.
 
PoliTalker said:
What if a for-profit company comes up with a vaccine, but it's run by somebody like that Schkreli guy, and they decide this is the ultimate get-rich tool.

What if they get a vaccine and decide to charge $50,000 a dose?

(Even if it only costs them pennies to make it)

Hey, it's their technology.

Capitalism says they can charge whatever they want for it.

Insurance companies could never afford to cover everybody for that. They could call it 'experimental,' and not pay.

Pay up and you can live. No money? Take your chances.

The rich could afford it, no problem. But the middle? Only if they give up their life's savings.

Should people cash in everything, just to stay alive?

And the rest may rest in peace?

Could happen.

What's to stop it?

How could the free market possibly serve a population in times like these?

It is a reason that health care should be done not for profit, but to serve we the people.
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Here's a novel idea. You can develop the technology and then YOU can charge how much or how little YOU think should be charged. What you can't do is tell someone else that came up with what they can charge.
 
Maybe it would be more profitable if they charged about $10,000.

That way, they could get a lot more people to pay.

And even the poor could go to rip-off payday lenders and get on the hook for that much.

Even put the bass boat up for collateral.
 
PoliTalker said:
Maybe it would be more profitable if they charged about $10,000.

That way, they could get a lot more people to pay.

And even the poor could go to rip-off payday lenders and get on the hook for that much.

Even put the bass boat up for collateral.
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Maybe you could develop the technology and then give it away if you are so inclined to do so. Until then, STFU about what someone else does.
 
PoliTalker said:
What if a for-profit company comes up with a vaccine, but it's run by somebody like that Schkreli guy, and they decide this is the ultimate get-rich tool.

What if they get a vaccine and decide to charge $50,000 a dose?

(Even if it only costs them pennies to make it)

Hey, it's their technology.

Capitalism says they can charge whatever they want for it.

Insurance companies could never afford to cover everybody for that. They could call it 'experimental,' and not pay.

Pay up and you can live. No money? Take your chances.

The rich could afford it, no problem. But the middle? Only if they give up their life's savings.

Should people cash in everything, just to stay alive?

And the rest may rest in peace?

Could happen.

What's to stop it?

How could the free market possibly serve a population in times like these?

It is a reason that health care should be done not for profit, but to serve we the people.
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nobody wants your nanobot injection.
 
We need a big powerful government to stand up to big powerful capitalism.

Big powerful capitalism represents the rich and powerful.

We, the People have the government to represent us, but we have to make it do that or else big powerful capitalism will use it against us. Happens all the time.
 
CFM said:
Here's a novel idea. You can develop the technology and then YOU can charge how much or how little YOU think should be charged. What you can't do is tell someone else that came up with what they can charge.
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How are you going to pay for your vaccines, seeing that you're a welfare recipient????????????????????????
 
PoliTalker said:
We need a big powerful government to stand up to big powerful capitalism.

Big powerful capitalism represents the rich and powerful.

We, the People have the government to represent us, but we have to make it do that or else big powerful capitalism will use it against us. Happens all the time.
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you're an idiot. big powerful government is controlled by the same shadowy plutocrats that run big business.
 
Trumpet said:
How are you going to pay for your vaccines, seeing that you're a welfare recipient????????????????????????
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Hopefully you'll need one, can't pay it, and will die as a result.

You continue to make claims about my financial situation yet have provided nothing to back it up.
 
CFM said:
Hopefully you'll need one, can't pay it, and will die as a result.

You continue to make claims about my financial situation yet have provided nothing to back it up.
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There's one thing about you that's obvious, and that is that you're intellectually bankrupted
 
CFM said:
I'm not the one making claims like that about you without backing it up.
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(There's one thing about you that's obvious, and that is that you're intellectually bankrupted)

I dot have to back up that statement, you're the one doing it for me.
 
Any REAL american with an actual heart wouldn't even think of charging.


The love of money is the root of all evil.
 
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