Death.

We are born helpless, we require lots of attention.

When we die, the same happens.

Gradually you will become a child again. You will become bed ridden, infirm and for a brief while rely on others in the same way you did as a child.

Each path we take when we come and go, the stuff that makes it all worthwhile is at the end and beginning.

It makes the stuff in between bearable.

OMFG, you are just so dumb, I did not say America HAS a cheap medical system, I said that America BUILT a cheap and accessible system when it still WAS A FREE MARKET CAPITALIST COUNTRY back in the 19th century and that the socialism/fascism of the last 100 years DESTROYED that. The rest of your argument falls right on its stupid face because you can't read apparently.

By the way, you may be confused on what 'cooperative' is. Cooperation cannot be achieved by threat of violence, that's called coercion, you see language is important, words have meanings and I do not cooperate under the barrel of a gun but I may be forced into slavery under it and unless you are making the argument that slaves 'cooperated' with their masters then you can't use that word to describe what the collective does.

There is no market failure, market is a combined desire of individual participants. There is market manipulation by governments. Governments that stand in the way of companies trying to bring products to markets.

IF there is such a huge need for antibiotics people should be able to make money by satisfying that need and if that means that a large amount of money first has to be gambled with, it's possible to achieve even that by raising that money in the free market the way kickstarter does it.

Of-course there is no free market in drugs, government is all over it, so don't talk about 'market failure'. There are perfectly valid FREE MARKET solutions to it, but the government PREVENTS free market from existing in the drug industry. You could start a company tomorrow and try and create new antibiotics if government wasn't standing in your way and all you would have to do is start a money raising campaign for that purpose. Try it, see how fast the government stops you from doing whatever it is you think needs to be done here.

But instead you want the slave owner State system to steal money from people to run your pet project and you want most of that money to be stolen from people who have more of it than you do, thus 'progressive income tax' and such.

The average person can't manage their own healthcare.

Even so..when did it become the Fed govt.'s responsibility to protect the stupid from themselves?

- right, slept through history class... at home, where my family members told me actual history about expropriation of land. My actual history class IN USSR schools was worthless though.

Market is regulated by itself, by individuals making individual decisions on every day basis and no, con people shouldn't be killing people, but that's beside the point. Maybe you believe there are no con people in your 'regulated markets'? Ha!

No, I am not interested in gray when we are talking about SLAVERY. There is no minimal amount of slavery to justify that gray area.

You don't like the industry and think you can do a better job than the industry, start doing it, build your own company and sell your own solutions. FDA is a murderous government organisation, just like all other government organisations.

- a bunch of made up nonsense that covers up the simple idea of government control and destruction of individual liberties and yes, we had 'it', when we destroyed private property rights, stole land from people who were working on it (and yes, they actually owned it as individuals, which is the only way to own something), stole and destroyed all other businesses as well, factories, stores, whatever.

Again, I have 0 interest in the superficial differences between definitions of collectivism where the actual true life consequences are very simple: destruction of individual liberties, destruction of individual freedoms, oppression of the individual by the collective.

That is not a real smart watch. There is no matrix display, no text, graphics, no apps. I wouldn't be able to see my appointments, no notifications, no weather info, no Email, no voice response, no wikipedia lookup, just time.

Are you sure you want to go down this route? France, Germany, Russia, everybody was taking note of the Mayo Clinic from late 18 hundreds while in Soviet Russia we were busy declaring that genetics and cybernetics are 'prostitutes of the bourgeoisie' and promoting Lysenkoism instead of real science.

Or maybe you think that only free market creates con artists? Or maybe you think that socialist/fascist control over individuals actually provides people with more individual choices in the market and lower prices? Hmmm, I have a bridge I want to sell, interested?

Setting aside socialism, if the system was working anything approaching optimum for the current configuration of third party payers and patent holders and everything else, insurance companies would already be inventing (and/or buying inventors of) drugs and practically giving them away to their members (or cross-licensing them with other insurers cheap to get their members the best drugs available in multiple categories). As a side effect, insurance companies would inherently aim to reduce side effects (guess who pays when you have a heart attack because of taking some drug) rather than cover side effects up (see: VIOXX). It would also eliminate the (real or imagined) conflict of interest between finding cures and finding treatments.

You only have yourself to blame for your shitty life experiences and generally speaking to fuck something you have to have a cock first and the only one you've got is the one growing out of your neck that you are eating into.

Ha ha ha ha! In the USSR we invented 4 or 5 antibiotics over the life of the country (a country that lasted for 69 or 74 years, depends on how you count) and it was complete and total socialism and of-course it was complete and total failure. How many antibiotics did they invent in Cuba exactly? North Korea?

American capitalism in 19th century American Free Market is actually what created cheap accessible and effective medical and pharma systems as for profit businesses and for the last 100 years American socialism/fascism have been destroying everything that was done.

The intent of the Constitution is perfectly clear. It is only weasel lawyers that want to find a way around it, to oppress and enslave, who find it confusing.

I was born in the USSR and saw soviet socialism as invective against the individual, I also lived in other socialist countries and again saw Western style socialism as invective against the individual. USA style corporatism and large socialist style government is fascist at this point, so I can observe that as well and I am not interested in it either, I also see it as invective against the individual. You think I need Wikipedia to define something from me that I saw and keep seeing in real life? Maybe you need Wikipedia to tell you what is obviously going on around, (which defines you as a person not worth arguing with) but I do not.

Socialism and fascism are both collectivism and collectivism is what I am 100% against, as it destroys individualism that I see as a requirement to have a free society.

Net metering doesn't force the utility to provide a service without getting compensated for it. Here in Maryland, I'm billed for the transport costs to move the power BOTH to or FROM my residence. So I have to cover a cost of my generated solar power getting pushed back out over their lines.

As I also pointed out, if the utilities were more forward-thinking and less resistant to change, they'd embrace PV solar as a useful addition to their overall system. There are pretty large losses involved in transporting power long distances to customers from the central power generation plant. That's why you see those big structures surrounded by chain link fence. They contain transformers needed to step up the voltage to compensate for resistive losses going over miles of copper wire on the poles.

If they've got people scattered about with small solar power generation capabilities on their roofs, they can purchase and immediately resell excess power generated there and avoid the big transmission losses.

I completely agree that this stuff requires some coordination with the utility company, for best results. As it is, you can't even get a solar system up and running without filling out a lot of paperwork, undergoing an inspection, and waiting for an approval from the utility though. So the ball is in their court in this respect. (They DO have first-hand knowledge of exactly where the solar systems will go online and how much power they're capable of generating.)

Most likely, what will happen is when particular neighborhoods reach a certain saturation level of solar installation, the power company will have to say - "Sorry... We won't approve any more new systems here with more than X amount of generation capacity because we've got all we need for this geographic area."