Socialists are Expensive Addicts

Tech Central Station has a no-nonsense, straightforward article about why reimportation of drugs, and price controls of pharmaceuticals in Socialist nations are bad for both patients and drug companies.

This was a big issue in the general election, and my socialist scumbag Congressman tried to make it an issue here. Senator Kerry criticized President Bush for not allowing the so-called "reimportation" of drugs from Canada. My crooked Congressman made a commercial out of taking some guy up across the border and making a big deal out of how much cheaper it was to buy drugs up there.

I'm going to explain this, and I'm going to explain this very clearly, so that there's no misunderstanding. Medicine essentially went unchanged for about five or six thousand years; it began to develop with the advent of capitalism and profit motive, because there was money to be made in curing diseases. When you remove that profit motive by introducing rationing, price controls, socialized distribution schemes, and generic production through copyright infringement, you remove that profit motive. When you remove that profit motive, drug companies don't have any incentive to spend money on research and development, so they don't.

So-called "free" health care isn't free, and in truth, it's doing far more harm to the cause of health promotion than good. The socialized health care systems in Europe are falling apart, and they're not innovating medical techniques or pharmaceuticals; we are. Reimportation is a bad thing for America, and Socialist manipulation of the economics of health care is bad for America, too. And it's bad for European patients.