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And even better to not engage in risky activities which are almost exclusively the transmission paths along which AIDS flows. Acquiring AIDS is behavior-based. Stop the behaviors and it would eliminate the condition. Guys, keep your junk out of other guys' butts, don't do drugs (and if you must then don't share needles), and don't play with hookers. In Africa, I'd add not going along with the custom of having to share body fluids with the your sister-in-law whose husband (your brother) died of AIDS.
Did you know there are other ways to acquire AIDS or are you stuck in the ignorant dark ages? How about addressing the actual topic instead of turning it into a homophobic rant?
The market for Daraprim may be much smaller. Although as many as 60 million Americans may harbor the toxoplasma parasite, which can be picked up from undercooked meats, unwashed fruits and vegetables or contaminated soil or litter boxes (cat feces is a major vector), the vast majority never will experience symptoms.
The risk population is the extremely elderly, infants who may acquire the bug from their mothers, and immunosuppressed patients such as those with HIV. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention estimated the number of hospitalizations due to the bug at about 4,400 a year and deaths at 327.
If every economic system since the dawn of mankind was socialism:
Aspirin would have never been invented.
People would still be riding horses as opposed to driving cars.
And, forums like this would not exist since the intelligence and technology to have an internet would have never existed with socialism.
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Increases in the standard of living of mankind is directly linked to how much economic (and political) freedom exists to allow inventions, creations and life changing prescription drugs.
Capitalism is responsible for the existence of the drug mentioned by the OP, and capitalism is responsible for the increase in cost.
Too many socialists want to have their cake and eat it too. And while doing it off the back of capitalism.
And even better to not engage in risky activities which are almost exclusively the transmission paths along which AIDS flows. Acquiring AIDS is behavior-based. Stop the behaviors and it would eliminate the condition. Guys, keep your junk out of other guys' butts, don't do drugs (and if you must then don't share needles), and don't play with hookers. In Africa, I'd add not going along with the custom of having to share body fluids with the your sister-in-law whose husband (your brother) died of AIDS.
It's not specifically and AIDS medicine though. It is used a lot for people with AIDS, but cancer patients and others with compromised immune systems can get the fungal infection that the drug is designed to treat.
And, forums like this would not exist since the intelligence and technology to have an internet would have never existed with socialism.
The origins of the internet were in a defense network, called arpanet. Then it evolved into a network between government laboratories, universities, etc. Then when capitalism first came along and infected it, it became mostly a porn network.
What you preach about capitalism vs socialism is a well known mantra. This kind of forum is for intelligent discussion, not for repetition of well known mantras.
Unbridle capitalism has been a complete failure, we now have 50% of the population living at or below the poverty line.
The rich keep on getting richer while the poor keep getting poorer and the middle class is disappearing.
I also want to point out that the TPP which is being negotiated in secrecy will enable drug companies to hold their drugs for much longer time before they are made available as generics.
Bernie has a good point, we need a mix because capitalism does not require a soul.
I don't like Bernie, but a mix seems...well, let me put it another way. Instead of worrying so much about whether our system is capitalistic OR socialistic, maybe we should make our system PRAGMATIC.
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