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Originally Posted by legion

You too, clearly, have no idea what capitalism is. Capitalism is many small producers (individuals or companies) making large volumes of products that are indistinguishable from producer to producer. This means the producer with the lowest price gets the most sales and the producer with the most efficient method of production has the highest profit...

+1 Let's get down to the bottom line: You are against GREED, not capitalism. They are automatically connected. When a person wants to create a successful business it isn't automatically greed. Otherwise everyone of us is greedy for wanting to have a profitable job or business.

Originally Posted by Christien

I don't agree with that, but I would definitely say that capitalism has no place in health care, period. Saving lives and improving health should never take the bottom line into consideration.

Talk about pie in the sky wishful thinking. Please step away from the utopia bong and come back to the real world.
Who do you think is going to fund all that medical research if there is no profit at the end of the discovery? The researchers who have the purest motives (in most cases) don't have the funds. There are a FEW altruistic folks who care about mankind but, there isn't enough funding from them alone to come up with the major advances in modern medicine we've seen in the last 3-4 decades. We need the drug companies looking for a profitable product to sell. Reality sucks but there it is.