I would never say "free markets do not exist at all". Nonetheless, here you are trying to stuff that down my throat.
I never stuffed anything down your throat. I asked a simple damn question. The fact a question offends you says more about you than me.
That alone is enough to tell me you're not worth further effort.
And yet you prattle on.
Certainly not in an abstract topic such as this where lots of subtlety and nuance is clearly called for. However, I did look back to see where you started just to make sure I wasn't missing anything important. Here's an excerpt from that grand, bloviating entrance:
And getting that out of you is like pulling teeth.
Now pay attention. Notice your use of > "the" < singular > "free market" -- not "markets."
So your entire bullshit rant is because of a missing s. Really?
Notice how I'm quoting YOUR actual words, not insisting you respond to any stupid, strawman questions.
Uh, you actually WERE insisting I respond to your question. And you actually quoted my words but responded to A word. Just one. Market. Because it was not markets....
And to Boot:
However:
Way to completely ignore my question. Hypocrite much?
So you are being a hypocrite and lying about it. Get a mirror.
Finally, but not least, notice you're spouting utter bullshit, as any cursory check of the associated research findings would easily reveal. Our government has never overtly prevented local competitors from entering the insulin production market. It has been argued by many that its policies have had that effect. No shit. But again, it's never actually removed the product from any market nor placed it anywhere. You're just banging off the walls, which is typical of "free market" über alles, libertarian boneheads everywhere.
Government cannot corrupt itself. That takes people who already have way too much. Meanwhile, the majority still have basic needs to worry about and limited budgets.
It does not prevent competition in the production and sale of drugs? Really? Of course they have not removed a product from the market - it would be illegal to sell it in the first place ergo there are no products to remove. They are prevented from ever being allowed onto the market in the first place. I pointed to what was preventing competition but you of course ignored that. Because you don't like the word market rather than markets. And you call my statements 'bloviating.'
The fact is there are massive hurdles for getting a new product on the market. If you want to bring the price down there is an easy solution, allow anyone to manufacture and sell the product, a process which CANNOT be done right now because the authorization for producing and selling insulin in the US are held by 3 major companies and no one else can come in and sell it. Not even the other major players on the world stage as there are several other major manufacturers already. The drug itself faces unique hurdles for competition because it is classified differently than most other drugs and certainly different than anything else that would be in a similar situation.
Your entire rant is nothing more than outright bitching that anyone would refer to free markets or free market solutions. That is not a point, that actually IS bloviating. It is bullshit. Your one and only point is to claim that the government does not overtly prevent people from entering the market. A bullshit claim if there ever was one. They do and they do wo with massive bar to entry for competing biologic drugs. Not the least of which there simple is no way to introduce a generic of insulin in the standard sense, FDA approval would require testing and comparison against the original biologic which simply does not exist because insulin was not produced and approved as a biologic. The regulatory structure for that classification did not exist then but does now. Meaning there is no pathway for competition to even get approved.
Further, as patents run out on the drugs, the main 3 simply patent delivery methods, an asinine concept if there ever was one. No longer control the production of the drug? Simple, control every method that you can put the drug in your body and bam, you maintain control over the industry anyway. That should not even exist, there is noting new or revolutionary about a needle, it is an old invention well past the date that anyone should be able to produce them or even produce similar vials to be loaded into existing pen needles.
In short, your bullshit complaint that a cursory search shows that regulatory structures do not overtly prevent any real competition in the American insulin market is bullshit 'bloviation' on your part and nothing more than a reflection that you do not give a rats ass about the topic in question. Rather you want to use it as a hammer to bitch about what you really are against, a free market.
