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Originally Posted by JLB No, I think that lives are more important than class warfare, or liberal greed and jealousy. |
We aren't talking in comparison to those.
We're talking about how the "pharm" industries are overcharging for their medicine, and that in turn is costing lives and/or making it so that people spend more money on their medicine than on their bills, thus lowering their overall living capabilities.
You have argued that they aren't overcharging, since they "invented" the drug(and you aren't against the patent thing either), and as such have every right behind keeping it at a high cost to purchase.
I have argued that by patenting a drug they're thereby robbing others from being able to go to different companies in order to acquire the drug they need, which in turn means that there is a basic monopoly in existence when it pertains to the drugs. On top of that, the overcharging and such for the drugs, not to mention that they'll often give multiple drugs(for dealing with side effects) that also cost a lot of money, and don't always work. This means that people either can't afford the drugs they need to live, or they can afford it but are thereby unable to afford anything even remotely necessary to live a life.