On Tue, 2004-10-05 at 14:21, Andrew Ho wrote: > Needs typically exheed the ability to fill the need; this is called > "scarcity" in economics, please read: > http://www.socialstudiesforkids.com/articles/economics/scarcityandchoices1.htm > > With greater scarcity, each unit of goods/service will command a higher > price. In a free market, the higher price will eventually cause increased > availability of the goods/services and reduction of scarcity.
Yes Andrew, eventually, and in theory, but in the meantime who provides health care for the huge numbers of HIV +ve people in Africa? > > Neither Calle or I, or anyone else, have suggested that people be > > prevented from migration. > ... > > ok - as long as you are not advocating discrimination based on > country-of-origin. No, we are against active recruitment and facilitated migration of trained health professionals from needy countries to wealthy countries. -- Tim C PGP/GnuPG Key 1024D/EAF993D0 available from keyservers everywhere or at http://members.optushome.com.au/tchur/pubkey.asc Key fingerprint = 8C22 BF76 33BA B3B5 1D5B EB37 7891 46A9 EAF9 93D0
