[ExI] Medical Costs

[Bryan Bishop]

On Wednesday 27 February 2008, Rafal Smigrodzki wrote:
> ### Patients are not "free" to go to a private provider if they have
> to *pay* . Patients are being charged for nationalized health
> services whether they use them or not, which means that choosing an
> alternative imposes a double cost on them. If the cost of a choice is
> doubled by force, then the choice is no longer free - it is *paid*,
> it is made artificially expensive.

On an off-topic note, I understand that conventionally these things are 
supposed to cost, but what's preventing you from growing your own 
bacterial colonies with drugs embedded in the genome? Granted, not all 
drugs have biosynthete(?) equivalents, but for the ones that do, set up 
a farm.

- Bryan
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Bryan Bishop
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