Yes there's definitely an argument to be made that Uber isn't actually a wealthy tech company. But my sense is that most folks think of it as part of the Silicon Valley elite that manages to compensates executives and FTEs very well despite not being profitable.
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The problem, of course, is that the prevailing political atmosphere is not conducive to enacting those laws, so, there we are.
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I agree. But I also think that people saying US can't afford public healthcare are wrong. It just doesn't make sense looking at every other country with public healthcare. I'm not even sure if you need to raise taxes tbh (but raising for the upper brackets of earning is a start).
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Even just transparency of healthcare costs would help, but in addition to all the barriers you mentioned, the AHA/FAH don't want transparency. And I can't figure out why...
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That is the very first law I would pass if I were emperor :) It is absurd that you go to the doctor, never see a price list, and then just receive something in the mail later that magically says you owe something.
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Patents are the current method of creating a financial incentive to create new drugs. It is very plausible to me that they could be replaced with something else like government bounties, but that couldn't be done overnight.
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That is the theory, but the more I've looked at the "create new drugs" industry, the more it looks a lot like patents on the measure may actually cause less new drugs to be created than more.
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I'm not keen on software patents but pharma is fairly different in ways that proooooobably change this, enough that I disagree that just wiping patents off the face of the earth would improve things. I keep an open mind about it though!
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