Lune quoting Locke in a P99 thread, how about feeding pigs with caviar
Let's say i got a terminal disease. This disease has a cure. This cure costs something like 50 bucks to produce.
Now you're that company that sell the drug. And you sell it 10,000 bucks. The worst thing is, even if you know it's bullshit, you're gonna everything to find these 10,000 dollars, because it's either that or die.
Now if you think im exagerating things: not long in my own country a NGO called "medecins du monde" (doctors of the world) launch and ad campaign denouncing the margins practiced by big pharmaceutical companies. For example the margin on the leukemia cure is
20 000%. (whole website there, sorry it's in french:
https://leprixdelavie.medecinsdumonde.org )
Now if you think it's okay, people making 20 000% margin betting on poor people will to live.. well, i don't want to be part of your world.
I pay a good chunk of my earning to get free healthcare, had to go to E/R not long ago, had full xrays and a free splint, plus one week of rest without losing any salary. I'm probably on the losing side since i'm still young and healthy, but don't care.
I actually remember seeing a good video about healthcare in the US:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qSjGouBmo0M