Originally Posted by Rusticus

1. Profit is not an ugly word in this society.
2. People who do things just for profit do not provide the best of anything. Health care included.
3. You may be motivated only by money so this may be hard for you to understand. All things being equal (aptitude, education etc.) the person who brings love to their performance will always be better than the person who does it only for money.Money is a product of great performance, not a raw material.
4. Their is a satisfaction to discovering something or developing a new technique that is totally independent of any money involved.


Yoshi, you do not know what you are talking about here. Drug reps don't just take doctors out to dinner. On a monthly basis, they will take whole hospital departments out to first class restaurants for dinner. On a daily basis, they will buy lunch for everyone in a practice. Among the whatnots you mention are little things like prime time tv commercials.

When a drug rep tells the doctor that his new drug is better than the old one, the doctor will prescribe it. End of story.


Many bills are longer than the constitution.
The Clintons bit off more than they could chew with health care. Especially since they weren't prepared for the AMA to spend over 100 million dollars on lobyists and commercials to defeat it. The most effective commercials told people they wouldn't be able to choose their own doctor. This was not true.