"When many cures are offered for a disease, it means the disease is not curable" -Anton Chekhov
''Once you tell people there's a cure for something, the more likely they are to pressure doctors to prescribe it.'' -Robert Ehrlich, drug advertising executive.
"Opinions are like sphincters, everyone has one." - Chris Rangel
Public Subsidies: A Canadian reader comments on what constitutes a public good:
And why would you have the government subsidize only immunizations for all citizens? One of your arguments is that it is for the public good that all children are immunized. Doesn't it follow that any medical procedure that contributes to the public good should be subsidized by the government for all citizens?
Actually, no, it doesn't follow that every medical procedure contributes to the public good. One man's expensive cholesterol medicine doesn't do anything to improve the next man's health. Nor does one man's Prozac. Childhood immunizations do. posted by Sydney on
8/08/2003 08:33:00 AM
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