MaggieMae
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- Apr 3, 2009
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That's certainly a talking point that seems to work on some.And once we get universal healthcare, the innovations will slow considerably because the profit motive will be gone. We'll enter a 'dark ages' period of medical science.
It only works on people who understand what is going on. If you've bought into the idea that Government-run healthcare is the answer, you'll never understand the truth.
For everyone else, here's a great commentary that discusses this very important issue:
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Just as there is potential danger from the way in which Americans take the power of the antibiotic for granted, so, too, one of the greatest threats to our health and continued welfare is that Americans in the present day, and particularly their leaders, are taking for granted the power, potency, and progress flowing from life-saving medical innovations. And in so doing, they may unknowingly prevent the kind of advance that could contribute as vitally to the welfare of the 21st century as the discovery of the antibiotic altered the course of human history for the better in the century just concluded.
The End of Medical Miracles? - WSJ.com
And isn't it interesting that doctors (who care) are prescribing fewer and fewer man-made antibiotics because the human body has learned how to adapt to those more than its own autoimmune antibodies, leaving people (especially children) even more vulnerable to illness and disease.
I guess the WSJ believes that people should be medically able to live forever. Oh my, what a drain on the younger taxpayer THAT will become. For such an anti-socialist, you should be very concerned about unintended consequences.