Dvergar wrote:
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What's wrong with having a researcher look for investment or donations to fund their research?
Why fund the curing of a disease when you can keep people on your pills until they die. Private investment leads to 5 different erectile pills and no cure for
the diseases of the poor. If you fundamentalists are so anti-government that you can't see the benefit of taxpayer-funded medical research I don't think there's any point in having a discussion at all.
What are the "diseases of the poor?" I'm not a doctor (but I play one on TV), but something tells me that disease doesn't check your bank account before it strikes you down with great vengeance and furious anger. As fun as class warfare can be, you should also note some of those 5 different weiner-stiffeners are used for more than just helping grampa inflate his wiggle-stick. My friend Christy's grandmother is on Viagra, because it's used to treat circulatory disease(s)/disorder(s), but she's probably the only person in the whole country (or even the world!) who isn't a rich white man that has any use for it.
The problem with taxpayer funded
anything is that it distorts the markets which would otherwise allocate resources in what is generally a more effective manner. Is it perfect? No, nothing with people involved ever is. There does need to be a balance between market and government, if for no other reason that regulation is required to keep the market safe from fraudulent practices. However, having the government picking winners and losers misdirects resources and creates artificially low prices that increase costs elsewhere (see: ethanol). How much government funding is going into research that's going to keep people alive well past their prime, beyond the scope of a life of dignity and quality, and would that funding be better directed by the market finding treatments (like those five pills) that instead provide that dignity and quality during a slightly shorter lifespan?
mazeltov wrote:
Brainless idiot gtfo.
Physician, heal thyself.
Your Pal,
Jubber