8 Medical Lies and Why I Abandoned Medicine 3252

Jeff

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It's the same thing. You can't fool most of the people all of the time for long. If they don't think they've been helped, they will soon quit giving you their money, and then you won't make any. Very few drug companies are fly-by-night soon to go bankrupt companies like Enron. They plan on being around for a long time, and giving people inactive pills that kill them is not conducive to that. Even giving people active pills that kill them *sometimes*, is bad for business (ask Merck).

We are back to the old question of what people WANT versus (supposedly) what they actually NEED. If you think "the people" themselves are not to be trusted with this choice, then it is logical to first attack the insbreastution of democracy itself. Leave business in general and pharm companies in particular, for later.

We've come to one of my major beefs with leftist social-democrats or democratic socialists, which I cannot repeat enough times. These people want socialist democracies to control business and medicine, on the grounds that business and medicine (especially medicine run as business) is too clever at fooling adults into wanting things that aren't good for them, sort of like children's breakfast-food advertising. But behold, the social-democrats' CURE for this malady is to have it all controlled by elected policitians, who are chosen by the people after political campaigns. :( Hmmmm.

See the problem? The social-democrats haven't quite got it figured out yet. They're still trying to get business and private money out of politics (apparently they want only government money in politics :)), but have not gotten to the realization that if people aren't wise enough to pick the best political candidate in the face of overspending, they aren't likely and magically going to be wise enough to do it in the face of perfectly balanced funding, either (not that the Right really overspends the Left much anyway). And people who are too dumb to spend their *money* wisely after any ad campaign, can't really be trusted to elect their government wisely after any political campaign. But with no campaigns you can't have any democracy. Any more than you can have any real jury trials without a prosecution and a defense. The bottom line is whether you trust people to wield power on their own behalf or not. If you do, I see no reason to think that the man or woman you trust to cast a ballot, cannot be trusted to spent his or her own money.

SBH