> Gautam Mukunda <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > --- Deborah Harrell wrote:
[Responding to Gautam's statement that gasoline is not
a public good.]
> > It is when driving your car is the only way to
> > escape death.
> > It is when critical patients stuck in
> > generator-powered-only hospitals can't breathe.
> > It is when food and water have to be trucked miles
> > into a disaster zone where refugees haven't had
> > any for days.
> >
> > Debbi
> > But Then That Explains Your Take On Drug Prices
> Maru
> >
> > (Hey, just following your shining example of
> > argumentation, ol' boy.)
> No, it still isn't. Public good is a technical term
> with a clear meaning. It doesn't mean "whatever is
> convenient for Debbi at this moment in time."
<raises eyebrow>
Waaal, podna -- death, suffocation, and dehydration
(granting that 4 or 5 days of no food is not usually
mortal, unless you're an infant or diabetic) are NOT
matters of my convenience. They are, hmmmm, matters
of life and death.
Did you read Dan's post on price-gouging WRT gasoline?
> And my
> take on drug prices is based on a desire to preserve
> innovation and access in the United States and
> around the world.
You are not taking into account the advances made by
universities and publicly-funded institutes.
For-profit drug companies *are not* the only or even
primary sources of drug innovation.
>Other than a reflex hostility to corporate
> profits and self-righteousness, where does yours
> come from?
Not "reflex," laddie, but a well-honed sense learned
by
watching Exxon, Enron, Tyco...and so on.
Not "corporate profits" - which I have stated on this
List that they have a right to make - but "corporate
gouging". Several posters, me included (Erik? Dan?
Kneem?), have cited various articles outlining the
outsized margin-of-profit of pharmaceutical companies
vs. other Fortune 500 corps (IIRC 15-17%).
As for "self-righteous" -- not sure in what context
you're stating this, but when I've been incorrect in a
cite, "fact" or statement, I have retracted it
on-List. You cannot say the same. [DDT ban.
Mercury. If you wanted particulars.]
Umm, where does my 'what' come from? I was conciously
parodying your style of 'slash and burn' discussion,
true, but gentle reasoning and subtle direction, as I
have previously discovered and discussed on-List,
simply do not penetrate your East-Coasters
Thennanin-type skulls... ;}
Debbi
who is now smothering laughter, and must hie herself
off to another lesson, but looks forward with heart
a-flutter to the learn'ed response <BOSEG>
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