If helping tens of thousands of people can be equated to a small study, then maybe.
How does this negate my point?
Says who? You? Maybe this was the reason why they lobbied against medicinal MJ.
Wrong again. Government at the behest of pharma is keeping it from coming to the market. So all those donations are reaping a nice return on investment, all the while the public suffers.
And you don’t understand how a for profit healthcare system works, do you?
Thank God the public spoke up and finally got there way with medicinal cannabis. Where are all the hard-on inducing clinical trials in America? Seeing that this has been legal in California for over 20 years. It was a very good thing that the public told pharma and people like you to go fuck yourself and demanded medicinal MJ as an option. Now there is less suffering and death because of it.
Then why has it worked for so long in other countries?
Unlike you I don’t assign all blame to the government. Blame also needs to go to the catalyst of corruption-the corporations/industry.
It is the truthful way of looking at it.
Here we go again with your half-truths.
You ought not to be held accountable for having a disease. Like when people are forced into bankruptcy. It ought to be a cost of doing business. If a few of your clients become disabled, that is the chance you take, rather than pile on and help to destroy their lives. If you are in the credit card industry and you can’t make money because a few people have become disabled then you need to get the hell out because you don’t know what the fuck you are doing.
Does not negate the point I made.
Maybe stem cells is not a cure but it certainly beats the options available here, hands down.
Whether I was diagnosed with a disease or not, shouldn’t matter. The points still stand. I’m just one who has literally gone through the system as opposed to someone who has read a theory in a book and thinks that is how the world should work.
Do these people truly have freedom of choice? Corporations do their best to influence this decision. Millions on ad campaigns and the funding of food scientists.
No, it does matter because your points don’t stand on their merits. They’ve been refuted time and time again, but you can’t see that because you have an incurable disease that’s jaded your entire worldview.
I’ve worked for the system you hate at the university level and at the insurance level and I’ve had a very close family member “go through the system” with an incurable neurological disease (Lewy body dementia). I’m well aware of how shitty the situation is and how the system works.
Unless your premise is based on the idea that people are too stupid to make their own choices, which you’re free to believe, then, yes, they truly have freedom of choice.
Dude, Vermont one of the most liberal states in the Union who’s elected Sander’s for like 100 years couldn’t get a single-payer system to pass because on no planet is it cheaper than what we have now.
So a minute ago it was cheaper overall. Now it’s an increase but less of an increase?
Fwiw, I still agree with a single payer approach, as I believe it’s the only real long term option. But I’m also realistic that taxes HAVE to increase to compensate.
Freedom of choice doesn’t mean “freedom from being influenced”. The CHOICE is a person’s, who they CHOOSE to listen to as influences is their choice as well.
Progressive flank? Are there real progressives in power?
Is this new spending meant as in addition to OR new spending by a new healthcare system, which would equate to less spending of 50 to 100 billion per year?
It’s additional spending on top of what’s currently being spent on healthcare in California (equal to 25%-50% of their annual budget) + $400B just to start the program (equal to 200% of their annual budget).
What would be the cost of our current system over a 10 year period?
Government-run, single-payer health care has proved time and again to be a costly, destructive fantasy.
Does Medicare, Medicaid prices rise higher and faster than the current system?
That hasn’t stopped Democrats from falling under single-payer’s spell. Sixteen Senate Democrats have signed on to co-sponsor Sanders’ bill.
A proposal supported by the majority of Americans. So they can have what the rest of the modern world has.
Pipes is president, CEO and Thomas W. Smith Fellow in Health Care Policy at the Pacific Research Institute. Her latest book is "The Way Out of Obamacare.
Wow, how shocking! Do you think she has a financial stake here? Probably and single-payer would cause her outfit to lose money and after all that is what is really important.
No they have not. Your main argument to be against stem cell therapy is clinical trials. And this does not stand on it’s merit as it has proven to be successful already despite the lack of clinical trials. It has been performed on tens of thousands of people for over a decade and has already been PROVEN to be far more successful than the garbage drugs put out by pharma with a much better safety profile. But since your ideology is so rigid you can’t see it as you’ve been blinded by patent based for-profit healthcare.
Does nothing to negate the point.
And your premise is based on zero influence of ad campaigns and food science.
And corporations do their best to influence the public’s decisions, spending millions of dollars, even if it is bad for them. As long as their making another buck it’s all good. What a sad, pathetic ideology.
