The business press often gives a perfect distillation of capitalism's profit > people: "While this proposition carries tremendous value for patients and society, it could represent a challenge for genome medicine developers looking for sustained cash flow" https://www.cnbc.com/2018/04/11/goldman-asks-is-curing-patients-a-sustainable-business-model.html …
hey look, it's good old free market capitalism efficiently organizing resources to solve the needs and desires of the people againpic.twitter.com/YwJIIsYAIj
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If I remember correctly, Noam Chomsky once pointed out that the business press consistently used Marxist theory, just from the other side, as it were.
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Why sell one cure when you can sell millions of palliatives.
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The capitalism argument has always been BS. Managed care took over medicine in the US by saying they were going to make primary care more widespread and accessible - until they found out they could make more money by hiring specialists and all of the means of production.
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Que tal esta,
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Nada surpreendente; afinal, no cânone do financismo especulativo liberal as vidas e os direitos são entraves para o lucro. Essa busca pela cura causa danos à economia e às metas fiscais! Sabe quantos CEO não poderão comprar um novo iate por causa disso? Oras.
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But single payer health care means "death panels" so it's a wash.
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"Curing patients" often means the "rituals of curing them" until their funding runs out. Death is inevitable & unavoidable but the fear of it generates huge profits, doan't it ...
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