pick a fight on a legit point, your original post was nothing more than a lame attempt to get a laugh from some lefties on an unfair comparison. The freepers say plenty of things to deserve ridicule, why not pick a real point?
As it is, they are being cost-conscious consumers and you are trying to turn that into a hypocritical commentary on socialized medicine.
At least fight fairly, or you sink to their level and any valid opinions and arguments get discounted.
it's a perfectly valid comparison. explicit subsidies are not the only only form of socialized medicine; government-enforced price controls on drugs certainly qualifies. it reduces potential profit in order to make the product more widely available--the drugs are, in effect, subsidized by a tax on the companies which sell the drugs. if you tried to pull something like this in the US, the freepers would oppose it as government interference in the free market. they'd almost certainly be calling it socialized medicine.
Fixer said:
pick a fight on a legit point, your original post was nothing more than a lame attempt to get a laugh from some lefties on an unfair comparison. The freepers say plenty of things to deserve ridicule, why not pick a real point?
As it is, they are being cost-conscious consumers and you are trying to turn that into a hypocritical commentary on socialized medicine.
At least fight fairly, or you sink to their level and any valid opinions and arguments get discounted.
Holy shit. A bunch of fucking assholes spend months screaming about health care reform, yelling lies at our Congressional representatives at meetings meant to inform, distort the entire process, then cry about the price of medication and explain in detail how to avoid the law that THE REPUBLICAN PARTY put in place and they unwittingly support - and to you that's not worthy of discussion.
I'd say it is the heart of the problem. Those on the right fight against their own interest endlessly, like lemmings.
Thoughtless, loud, blathering idiots destroying this country.
Fixer said:
pick a fight on a legit point, your original post was nothing more than a lame attempt to get a laugh from some lefties on an unfair comparison. The freepers say plenty of things to deserve ridicule, why not pick a real point?
As it is, they are being cost-conscious consumers and you are trying to turn that into a hypocritical commentary on socialized medicine.
At least fight fairly, or you sink to their level and any valid opinions and arguments get discounted.
Holy shit. A bunch of fucking assholes spend months screaming about health care reform, yelling lies at our Congressional representatives at meetings meant to inform, distort the entire process, then cry about the price of medication and explain in detail how to avoid the law that THE REPUBLICAN PARTY put in place and they unwittingly support - and to you that's not worthy of discussion.
I'd say it is the heart of the problem. Those on the right fight against their own interest endlessly, like lemmings.
Thoughtless, loud, blathering idiots destroying this country.
I know your normal modus operandi is to wander in with snippy one-liners that you think deliver some devastating point in the interests of "balance" or "perspective", but often you do it really badly, like this time.
This isn't just the Freepers saying something stupid -- it's the Freepers saying something (collectively) that clashes directly with their world view.
Regulated prices or subsidies prices have something in common -- they are an intervention in the normal workings of a "free market", for a policy goal.
motorfirebox said:
it's a perfectly valid comparison. explicit subsidies are not the only only form of socialized medicine; government-enforced price controls on drugs certainly qualifies. it reduces potential profit in order to make the product more widely available--the drugs are, in effect, subsidized by a tax on the companies which sell the drugs. if you tried to pull something like this in the US, the freepers would oppose it as government interference in the free market. they'd almost certainly be calling it socialized medicine.
Oh look, we agree again. Weird.
Although totally my bad for not doing my research on the medication prices being due to regulation, not the socialized system (although they're definitely related).
Fixer
Los Angeles, CA
October 2002
FEB 18, 2010 04:35 PM