[lend000]

Everything is a market. Someone has to produce a finite supply for some cost. There is some demand for the medicine. Suppliers can be incentivized to produce by demand through price.

Look up the percentage of all drugs that were invented in the United States. Socialized medicine is subsidized by capitalist innovation overseas. There are so many problems with the US system, but they have more to do with regulatory capture (including difficulty of FDA approval + difficulty of becoming a doctor) and price transparency than anything else.

[cloudfifty]

Sit tight and assess! This is like reading a propaganda pamphlet with the inevitable very long term "it may work, we'll have to wait and see in a decade or two, but until then at least our profits are not affected"-solutions.

[lend000]

Did you forget to read the last part, describing the major things that need to change?

[cloudfifty]

I did not.

[lend000]

Then you clearly misunderstood and your response adds no value. Nobody said sit tight. I said change some major things with powerful gatekeepers. Don't let your ideology get in the way of entertaining new ideas.

[cloudfifty]

I did not misunderstand you. The suggested changes are bullshit.

[lend000]

From your comment history, it appears you have a problem with making HN-quality comments [0]. Reddit's always an option if you don't want to change.

Otherwise, please work on entertaining new ideas and contributing with your own ideas/suggestions/explanations rather than being "that guy" who shits on people with low value comments lacking any reason or explanation (typically because they are wrong but don't want to admit their position for fear of ridicule by people like themselves).

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html