even in a market with gross state distortion of price, this will encourage pharma companies to produce medicine where they can take a great profit in instead.
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You expect members of congress to factor basic economics into their proposals?


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Price gouging the weak and infirm is the same as yelling fire in a crowded theater
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Plus government involvement has also increased demand
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I've been thinking about this the last few days. That long wait times for medical care are shortages, which are also just a manifestation of the portion of the price that has become illegal to charge in currency. the price hasn't been capped but instead shifted into wait times
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Price caps are another way of addressing symptoms instead of the real causes behind the undesired effect.
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Many cretins believe supply and demand is an ideological construct they can wish away rather than an immutable law, which is why they're flummoxed when free health care leads to long wait times and free bread leads to bread lines and starvation.
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If the product is still profitable, what stops production (and therefore supply) increasing to increase profits?
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"_unnecessary_ price spikes". How can you be against this?
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Define unnecessary
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