Fix health care and pay off the national debt in 6 years with the savings!!!

[EdwardBaiamonte]

Remember the dude that jacked up prices on required medications by over 750 percent?

Why are you remembering that dude rather than the millions of dudes who sell on Amazon Ebay and Walmart who sell at the lowest prices in the world??.

 

[SavannahMann]

So in your capitalist dream you want to limit the earnings to a socialist system amount.

no, to a capitalist amount,i.e., an amount determined by the free market which would be less than half of what they get now under the socialist system.

All Doctors are not equal. All lawyers are not equal. Good lawyers cost more than average or below average. Great lawyers cost a small fortune for every hour of their time.

Doctors are the same. Not every one of them make a ton of money every year. To get the average of $400k a year that is the doctors who earn a small fortune averaged out with several who don't.

There are perhaps half a dozen doctors in the world who can perform brain surgery if you have cancer. Those are in high demand and as a result make a lot more money than the podiatrist who is ordering the corrective shoes for those clubbed feet.

That is capitalism in practice. The best earn more than the rest.

What you want to do is lump them all together and let the market decide what they earn. But you don't really want that. What you want is for them all to be paid the least. That isn't capitalism. Walk into a Jaguar dealer and tell them you want their car for what an equivalent Kia cost. They will not meet the price. If you want a Jag you are going to pay.

Doctors are exactly the same. They won't work for less. They have student loans to pay and expenses too. They've worked hard to get there and they aren't going to settle for less.

The costs to the consumer. That would be the patients you want to screw over would be outside what they could afford. The Doctors would raise their prices not lower them. What they can charge now is limited by insurance companies that fix the usual and customary standards.

Now the Doctor who has no such limits can charge a thousand dollars for an appointment. The Doctor would have fewer patients and still make the money you want to deny them.

The principle of Capitalism is make as much as you can. It isn't to settle for less. I am a heavy equipment operator. I make six figures a year. If you decided I was making too much and wanted to cut my pay I'd just walk away. Many Doctors would do just that.

 

[ABikerSailor]

. Most CEO's are going to charge as much for medicine as they can get.

all businesses charge as much as they can for whatever they sell. 1+1=2. Do you really think Ford would not like to double the price of its cars???

. Most CEO's are going to charge as much for medicine as they can get.

all businesses charge as much as they can for whatever they sell. 1+1=2. Do you really think Ford would not like to double the price of its cars???

So you agree with me that all businesses will charge as much as they can for their products, good.

Now tell me again how capitalism (charging as much as you can for your product), is going to reduce medicine costs? If prices increas, then costs go up. The only way to get costs down is to regulate how much hospitals can charge you. I mean really, 5 bucks for an aspirin in the hospital? You can buy a whole bottle for half that!

 

[ABikerSailor]

Remember the dude that jacked up prices on required medications by over 750 percent?

Why are you remembering that dude rather than the millions of dudes who sell on Amazon Ebay and Walmart who sell at the lowest prices in the world??.

Because there is a wide disparity in medicine costs, even from store to store in the same freaking town. And, he's not the only one that did that. There is the epi pen dude as well. Know what epi pens are for? Saving a persons life who is going into anaphilatic shock. Know how long they have to administer the dose? Minutes, if not seconds, otherwise the person dies.

Is it really right to double the cost of the medication that you know people need to survive?

 

[EdwardBaiamonte]

All Doctors are not equal. All lawyers are not equal. .

if I said they were I'll pay you $10,000. Bet?????????????

 

[EdwardBaiamonte]

So in your capitalist dream you want to limit the earnings to a socialist system amount.

no, to a capitalist amount,i.e., an amount determined by the free market which would be less than half of what they get now under the socialist system.

All Doctors are not equal. All lawyers are not equal. Good lawyers cost more than average or below average. Great lawyers cost a small fortune for every hour of their time.

Doctors are the same. Not every one of them make a ton of money every year. To get the average of $400k a year that is the doctors who earn a small fortune averaged out with several who don't.

There are perhaps half a dozen doctors in the world who can perform brain surgery if you have cancer. Those are in high demand and as a result make a lot more money than the podiatrist who is ordering the corrective shoes for those clubbed feet.

That is capitalism in practice. The best earn more than the rest.

What you want to do is lump them all together and let the market decide what they earn. But you don't really want that. What you want is for them all to be paid the least. That isn't capitalism. Walk into a Jaguar dealer and tell them you want their car for what an equivalent Kia cost. They will not meet the price. If you want a Jag you are going to pay.

Doctors are exactly the same. They won't work for less. They have student loans to pay and expenses too. They've worked hard to get there and they aren't going to settle for less.

The costs to the consumer. That would be the patients you want to screw over would be outside what they could afford. The Doctors would raise their prices not lower them. What they can charge now is limited by insurance companies that fix the usual and customary standards.

Now the Doctor who has no such limits can charge a thousand dollars for an appointment. The Doctor would have fewer patients and still make the money you want to deny them.

The principle of Capitalism is make as much as you can. It isn't to settle for less. I am a heavy equipment operator. I make six figures a year. If you decided I was making too much and wanted to cut my pay I'd just walk away. Many Doctors would do just that.

 

[EdwardBaiamonte]

The best earn more than the rest.

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if all agree why are you pointing it out like a child who just discovered that 1+1=2

 

[EdwardBaiamonte]

That would be the patients you want to screw over would be outside what they could afford..

why not have your mother read OP to you? It says everyone gets voucher for $8000 which is exactly what everyone spends now. Do you understand?????

 

[EdwardBaiamonte]

Because there is a wide disparity in medicine costs, even from store to store in the same freaking town.

this is because there is no capitalism. Read Op prices would be posted so people could shop intelligently !

 

[EdwardBaiamonte]

Is it really right to double the cost of the medication that you know people need to survive?

hey, the more money they get the more they have develop a cancer cure!!

 

[EdwardBaiamonte]

Now tell me again how capitalism (charging as much as you can for your product), is going to reduce medicine costs?

under saintly capitalism you charge the most you can which has to be less than all the other competitors in theorld if you want to survive in business. This is why East Germany did worse than West Gemany. Can you guess why Florida does better than Cuba?