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> funding for public health programs

Why do you believe the solution needs to come from tax collected revenue? If you had a way to make people live healthier, don't you think people would pay you for it?




Sure, the wealthy would have means to pay for cures, life-extension, organ-regeneration while the poor would not. Imagine the dystopia that creates.

Let's say there was a 100% effective treatment for cancer/MLS but cost $20,000 per month. We'd all be "willing to pay" for that for a loved one but "willing" isn't "able." That's the problem with US-style for-profit healthcare. Economics breaks down because there's no ceiling to what the "consumer" is willing to pay, only a profit-based decision by companies of how many people it wants to divide into people deserving of health and those not.

Seriously, as a society, if we don't grapple with economic ethics of "miracle cures", corporate greed plus technological advances will lead to endless class wars over who's grandma/child gets to live or who's withers and dies unnecessarily.


What creates better public health outcomes, making condoms available widely available at no cost, or letting market forces take care of it?


Unfortunately people often don't go to the doctor because it's too expensive. Why would that change if you added more things to the doctor's toolbox?




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