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    Default Re: Will Obamacare succeed where term limits failed?

    Quote Originally Posted by Husar View Post
    The healthcare market is supposed to make people healthy but the suppliers actually make money and profit with people who are not healthy, if you deregulate the market completely, what will stop companies from trying to introduce medicine that is addictive or makes people healthy slower than it could so they have to take more?
    What? They're not doing that already?

    Don't you find it odd that you think a democratically elected government can force companies to behave on the electorate's behalf, but the electorate itself can't force the change? If a majority of people want ingredients on food labeling, they vote for representatives that will enact the regulation. But, if a majority of people want ingredients on food labeling, can't they accomplish the same thing by buying from suppliers that do so? If it's important, it'll drive sales. If it drives sales, all suppliers will be doing it in short order.

    Look at the explosion of organic food stupidity if you need an example. People are willing to pay 3x as much for a banana because it's "organic", as though other bananas are "inorganic". Therefore, you can't find a grocery store that doesn't stock them.
    Last edited by Xiahou; 11-02-2013 at 01:34.
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