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no shortage of gasoline? The speculators believe we do. How come we are paying $4/ gallon?
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Simple, it's a shortage caused by the sellers, maybe the even the buyers. We seem to be willing to pay the current price which means the pressure to lower it at the source level isn't there.
Oh, if we had a shortage like the medication shortage, we would have gas stations without gasoline instead of expensinve gasoline. It's comparing apples to oranges at this time.
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really no concept considering I live in a drup Mecca of manufactures with family and friends in the business let alone and active investor. Hmmm, good one.
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I see no argument here. Baseless statements with no argument mean a concession of point. Like I said, you could use a course in logic.
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so are you telling me profits actually mean something? Remember, the Dems don't like profits made by the drug companies. They are demanding less competition and more dictating to the drug companies. They want to tell the drug companies what the government will pay. They don't negotiate.
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I'm not a very liberal person. I'm not so stupid that I think my basically worthless state representative (I don't live in his region) who signed on to the stupid idea of merging companies has a clue about this. Well, actually, he might. As the owner of the Kohls chain stores this may just be helping out another group of major company owners to realize higher profits by eliminating some competition, and tightening the stranglehold they have on the market.
Either way, merging companies together isn't likely to equal less expensive drugs.
I understand that many elected representatives have tried to impose prices on various markets. That sets up a dangerous precedent that only hurts more in the long run. Look at Wisconsin's slowly failing milk market. The further you are away from Eau Claire, the more you get paid for a gallon of milk. Government price fixing at it's worse. There are companies that sell the cheapest bought milk in the nation for higher profits because of the deserved reputation that it tastes better than milk from the rest of the US.
The farmers, some of them my family and friends, are getting shorted by the goverment. Many of the family farms are slowly going under because of the diminished profits in recent years because the goverment is slow to change the price structure to allow for increases in production costs.
So, yes, I am acutely aware of the mindset of goverment price fixing and the long term detriment it can cause. The milk price fixing is just a minor example of government over micro-management.
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really. Didn't you just suggest profits actually mean something? Now you're saying they don't mean anything long term? How come we have less and less manufactures of vaccines today than we did 20 years ago?
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Regulations have changed for this field as with many others causing increases in production costs. Companies have merged together in many different fields. The question here is do the lack of overall companies have to do with mergers or failures? The other question is, did they simply move overseas as many other companies have?
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there you go hinting about profits being a market driver. Why don't you look up the number of doctors who no longer take Medicare and Medicaid patients? How many more were taking it 30 years ago? How many private "club" physicians are now out there compared to 30 years ago? You know, the ones that charge a yearly fee to be in there practice. That was unheard of 30 years ago.
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A lot of Doctors, medical practices, stopped taking Medicare/Medicaid patients for the same reasons they stopped taking BadgerCare patients in Wisconsin. The paperwork involved in treating those patients is a nightmare, and then it takes a long time to get paid. The red tape and issues within the bureaucratic system make a lot of people want to avoid working with those systems rather than just helping everyone.
Club physicians existed 30 years ago too. Are there more today than yesterday? I don't know. However, two of my neighbors growing up were "club doctors" as you put it. I'm guessing seeing as they were part of a group of six thirty years ago I'm guessing they were part of a group of like-minded physicians at the time. They weren't rebels, they were professionals following one of the private practive models that still exists today.
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you need to demand a refund!
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Seeing as you aren't winning the non-existent debate you began, that seems doubtful. Some good reading comprehension courses coupled with a good logics class would help you out tremendously.
Oh, and as you did agree with me that these are private corporations that need profits in order to stay in business. Another point that has been conceded to myself by you.
I did start out by saying that this was a profits driven issue to begin with. How you missed that is beyond me. It's not the first time you've missed the points being made by myself or others on this forum.
Better get use to this
