What would be the worst thing for the government to make illegal?

[me203]

One thought occurs to me: if they outlawed all laws there could be a real problem!

 

[rareboy]

Pussy. Johnny Law ain't gonna stop me from getting my buns clapped. Tint the windows and keep a wig in the glove compartment, if the cops come a-knockin roll the window down and talk in Kim Kardashian valley girl with vocal fry. Or in the case of femme girls, just talk.

I like the way you're thinking there, fellow felon.

 

[me203]

But, we should have international pricing. The idea that medicines are a profiteering enterprise should have been stopped a century ago, and we should have nationalized the industry.

I have to wonder if that wouldn't fix a lot of problems. Pricing is not the only problem with greed in the pharma industry. I've heard stories about products that developed that really offer--how do we put this nicely?--a solution that might not really be worth it at any price, let alone the huge pricing that such drugs/treatments usually carry.

I used to be a strong supporter of Medicare For All. I've backed away a bit. Not because I think the system we have works. It doesn't. But, at the same time, there is so much trouble with rampant greed in our medical system that must be fixed, and I wonder if that isn't more critical than a single payer system.

 

[LoveMyPeppermill]

A single payer sets the payment rates.

 

[me203]

Single payer system might set payment rates. But I have to wonder by the time the time it's all done if the rates will really be that much better than they are now. There will be lobbyist action. There will be political pressure. Well placced bribes donations to law maker campaigns. Etc. And so, in the end, even if everyone is covered--a good thing--the system as a whole could remain ridiculously and ruinously expensive.

 

[gsdx]

Single payer system might set payment rates. But I have to wonder by the time the time it's all done if the rates will really be that much better than they are now. There will be lobbyist action. There will be political pressure. Well placced bribes donations to law maker campaigns. Etc. And so, in the end, even if everyone is covered--a good thing--the system as a whole could remain ridiculously and ruinously expensive.

None of which is allowed in Canada. That's why the US government stopped Americans from coming across the border on day trips to buy their prescriptions at a fraction of the cost.

The biggest drug pushers in the US are the pharmaceutical companies, especially with their commercials which don't even tell us what their drugs are for. "Ask your doctor if Ziskyzyseezazzipan is right for you." (That isn't allowed in Canada, either.)