The only people who lose are those who are sick with these cancers and too poor to afford the treatments when they are developed.
Please explain how someone is worse off if he can't have a drug because it's too expensive than if he can't have a drug because it's never brought to market.
An impact big enough to significantly change gravity would cause destruction far beyond the capability of macroscopic life to survive. Consider the Earth as an uncooked egg, and drop it onto concrete. That kind of damage.
She's 71. How much longer would she live, assuming it takes 10 years to turn this discovery into a legal drug?
All she did to have this mutation was to be born. She didn't discover the mutation, nor identify it, nor is it likely she'll be doing much of anything to develop new products to relieve pain based on the mutation. She's not working to accomplish anything. Just how much does she deserve?
The social contract has been broken by governmental greed. It's time to void and reinstate a new contract while seizing stolen assets from the governmental thieves robbing society.
You've touched on the way things should go: not textbooks, but interactive educational software. Learning should be like an early Tomb Raider game: some exposition, mostly adventure and puzzles.
Not only books, but classrooms and teachers should be phased out. Computers and software should be able to handle everything but physical activity skills, at much lower cost.
Pure capitalism doesn't work because ultimately it depends on all people being perfectly rational consumers.
Ooh, a straw man. Almost as common as "capitalism requires perfect information."
Capitalism is the protection of human rights - life and what a person needs to do to support his life - viewed from an economic standpoint. That requires laws to identify the rights, and people to enforce the laws. The system does not have zero friction; some overhead and maintenance is necessary.
The only wages Trump might control are federal government employees. For a few decades now, they've been paid more than equivalent employees in private industry, with less risk of losing their jobs. It's more than time to restore the balance, which means not paying federal employees more. Eventually that will result in higher wages and more competent people in the private sector.
The dime stores where I grew up were substantially more varied than today's dollar stores. They'd have a lunch counter and sell fabrics by the yard, for instance. They were two stories, and at least 4 times the floor space of a dollar store.
Food is an enormous export category for the U.S. Farmers don't need subsidies to be profitable, unless they're incompetent. If subsidies and tariffs and bogus import requirements were removed you'd see readjustments as some prices went up and others down. You'd see some unproductive farmers go out of business, with their farms either abandoned sold off to more efficient farmers. You'd see a lot of bureaucrats forced to find honest jobs instead of interfering with productive people. The net would be an improvement.
Dollar Tree should be distinguished from Dollar General and Family Dollar. Dollar Tree sells everything for a dollar (except greeting cards for 50 cents) and many things are less expensive than supermarkets. (Dollar Tree is getting squeezed by inflation; something's going to have to change within a few years.) Dollar General is usually more expensive than a supermarket.
Sure, there's a lot of low quality stuff at dollar stores, but often low quality is all a person needs. It's not a scam, it's a market segment that some people would be worse off without.
A large part of the increase in educational costs has been caused by government meddling, which resulted increased non-teaching staff, overpaid administrators, and the buildings to hold them. Cities grow up around the institutions, raising property value and taxes. There's a lot of demand for prestigious schools, and their capacity hasn't grown by a factor of 2 while the US population has. This causes supply-demand price hikes, which allow the schools to be wasteful, putting money into edifices, political causes, and administrators' pockets.
There are small colleges that run a tight ship, where tuition is 1/10th that of ivy league schools.
Coffee, tea, wine, and beer have been around for millennia. Many coastal regions were heavily dependent on fish. Coffee, tea, and fish all have hundreds of studies demonstrating their health benefits.
Doctors don't get much training in nutrition, and they've forgotten most of it by the time they graduate.
Heck, most nutritionists and dieticians don't keep up-to-date on advances in their field. Most will tell you that everyone can get optimum nutrition from consuming nothing but food (i.e. no supplements), which is quite untrue. (Note, I said "optimum", not "adequate".)
Low activity yields weak muscles and weak bones. Weakness is unpleasant and does not promotes a long life. Moderate activity and a good low calorie diet gives a better chance for a long, pleasant life.
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Please explain how someone is worse off if he can't have a drug because it's too expensive than if he can't have a drug because it's never brought to market.
Too bad Hassan can't share Cosko's cell. Both senators from New Hampshire are villains.
This is ex post facto law, unconstitutional and against the most fundamental principles of justice.
An impact big enough to significantly change gravity would cause destruction far beyond the capability of macroscopic life to survive. Consider the Earth as an uncooked egg, and drop it onto concrete. That kind of damage.
UEFI is a rootkit.
She's 71. How much longer would she live, assuming it takes 10 years to turn this discovery into a legal drug?
All she did to have this mutation was to be born. She didn't discover the mutation, nor identify it, nor is it likely she'll be doing much of anything to develop new products to relieve pain based on the mutation. She's not working to accomplish anything. Just how much does she deserve?
People working at the landfill will build houses near their workplace.
Janis Joplin died of a heroin overdose at age 27. That is not an indicator of a person whose opinions you should base your life on.
How do you know if the current mayor of New York City is a Republican?
The city doesn't smell like urine.
Sales tax, property tax, VAT, inventory tax....
The social contract has been broken by governmental greed. It's time to void and reinstate a new contract while seizing stolen assets from the governmental thieves robbing society.
FTFY
"Maroon" is a racial slur.
Big screen. Multiple instances of the text reader open simultaneously. Problem solved.
You've touched on the way things should go: not textbooks, but interactive educational software. Learning should be like an early Tomb Raider game: some exposition, mostly adventure and puzzles.
Not only books, but classrooms and teachers should be phased out. Computers and software should be able to handle everything but physical activity skills, at much lower cost.
Ooh, a straw man. Almost as common as "capitalism requires perfect information."
Capitalism is the protection of human rights - life and what a person needs to do to support his life - viewed from an economic standpoint. That requires laws to identify the rights, and people to enforce the laws. The system does not have zero friction; some overhead and maintenance is necessary.
The only wages Trump might control are federal government employees. For a few decades now, they've been paid more than equivalent employees in private industry, with less risk of losing their jobs. It's more than time to restore the balance, which means not paying federal employees more. Eventually that will result in higher wages and more competent people in the private sector.
The dime stores where I grew up were substantially more varied than today's dollar stores. They'd have a lunch counter and sell fabrics by the yard, for instance. They were two stories, and at least 4 times the floor space of a dollar store.
Food is an enormous export category for the U.S. Farmers don't need subsidies to be profitable, unless they're incompetent. If subsidies and tariffs and bogus import requirements were removed you'd see readjustments as some prices went up and others down. You'd see some unproductive farmers go out of business, with their farms either abandoned sold off to more efficient farmers. You'd see a lot of bureaucrats forced to find honest jobs instead of interfering with productive people. The net would be an improvement.
Dollar Tree should be distinguished from Dollar General and Family Dollar. Dollar Tree sells everything for a dollar (except greeting cards for 50 cents) and many things are less expensive than supermarkets. (Dollar Tree is getting squeezed by inflation; something's going to have to change within a few years.) Dollar General is usually more expensive than a supermarket.
Sure, there's a lot of low quality stuff at dollar stores, but often low quality is all a person needs. It's not a scam, it's a market segment that some people would be worse off without.
A large part of the increase in educational costs has been caused by government meddling, which resulted increased non-teaching staff, overpaid administrators, and the buildings to hold them. Cities grow up around the institutions, raising property value and taxes. There's a lot of demand for prestigious schools, and their capacity hasn't grown by a factor of 2 while the US population has. This causes supply-demand price hikes, which allow the schools to be wasteful, putting money into edifices, political causes, and administrators' pockets.
There are small colleges that run a tight ship, where tuition is 1/10th that of ivy league schools.
Coffee, tea, wine, and beer have been around for millennia. Many coastal regions were heavily dependent on fish. Coffee, tea, and fish all have hundreds of studies demonstrating their health benefits.
Doctors don't get much training in nutrition, and they've forgotten most of it by the time they graduate.
Heck, most nutritionists and dieticians don't keep up-to-date on advances in their field. Most will tell you that everyone can get optimum nutrition from consuming nothing but food (i.e. no supplements), which is quite untrue. (Note, I said "optimum", not "adequate".)
Low activity yields weak muscles and weak bones. Weakness is unpleasant and does not promotes a long life. Moderate activity and a good low calorie diet gives a better chance for a long, pleasant life.
There's also Presidential pardon.
If you aren't already, try taking inositol with a meal.