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"But you need to understand how a hospital works. The cost of running a hospital is distributed across all its services. Some services are available at a discount, while others are available at a premium. If you were to purchase Aspirin at the hospital pharmacy, it wouldn't be $10/pill and it would be readily available."
You simply have no idea how a hospital works and, as a result, you are unable to grasp a very simple concept. You can keep refusing to learn, but it doesn't change the facts. Hospitals are not price gouging Aspirin and you would understand why if you tried to learn something for a minute.
The guy in the garage can just as easily whine and complain that he needs to charge 400% more for one item to make up for a loss on another item, or to pay for expenses for incurred running his business. Business is business. No one should enjoy special privileges to screw consumers, and no government should be picking winners and losers in business, hindering the success of private citizens, etc.
Call it what you want, but hospitals charging $10 for a fricken aspirin is a perfect example of tolerated price gouging. What would happen if they tried selling aspirin for $10 on ebay? They would probably get shut down pretty quickly, although I doubt anyone would be stupid enough to buy it to begin with. But when someone is on clinging to life and doesn't have the luxury to shop around, it's totally cool for hospitals to price gouge according to you, since they apparently can't pay their bills any other way.
Sounds like they aren't very good at running an honest business, if that's the case. Why is it too much to ask a hospital to charge a fair price for all services, instead of trying to rip off some customers to pay for the care of other customers?
A minimum of 6 hours for returning Americans to clear customs at O’Hare yesterday. In the meantime they were packed liked sardines. Imagine similar situations exist at the other airports allowed to accept inbound flights.
Only 5% of all countries around the world were found to be capable of dealing with a pandemic or even a lesser epidemic.
In a nutshell....we're screwed.
Maybe nothing, maybe everything. America has a particular fascination with Russia and the Trump administration. There are zillions of other threads in POC on it.
The guy in the garage can just as easily whine and complain that he needs to charge 400% more for one item to make up for a loss on another item, or to pay for expenses for incurred running his business. Business is business. No one should enjoy special privileges to screw consumers, and no government should be picking winners and losers in business, hindering the success of private citizens, etc.
This goes back to another response I had to a previous post of yours:
"There's nothing stopping this guy to run his business as he wants."
US bribing and then Germany counter bribing with even more money
And that Trump wants the vaccine for the US and only the US and no other country.
You seriously find it hard to believe that Trump would want the US to have an exclusive vaccine or cure? You really, honestly think that he wouldn’t want that?
This happened when Hostess went out of business and people were selling a box of Twinkies for $20. I don't recall anyone shutting down the sellers that were gouging the public and no one was thrown in jail over it?
MMM twinkies...
Right? Or when people sell off their shares when demand shoots up. People do this on a daily basis, and no one gets outraged over it.
A few days ago, I could buy TP for about $30 on ebay. Now I no longer have that option because some pearl-clutcher deemed it immoral. I'm so sick of these people who want to impose restrictions without thinking about the actual consequences.
So offering a bribe doesn’t matter if the person you’re bribing has the ethics to refuse it?
Got it.
Where'd I say that? Please document with my own words. My intent was to show it wouldn't work.
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