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By: Freedem on 25 July 2007
There was a time in the US when most medical research was funded by the government, they arranged not only the testing but also the questions.
With a few notable exceptions, the ultimate question was "what works best?" and not "How can we maximize profit" as is the only current questions asked.
You talk of confiscation of discovery by the screaming neediness of the commons, but ignore the confiscation of the commons by the screaming greediness of folk who have funded their research from moneys gotten from exactly the same source, the average person.
The question is not "taxes vs not taxes" but who gets the taxes and how and what happens to the excess.
Even sitting in the US I cannot get health insurance at any price, and was $15,000 a year when I could (just for me). Though I live better than 99% of the world a single health emergency would put me at the other end of the spectrum, and very shortly dead.
If you could find the book or movie "The Constant Gardner" the actual story is fiction, but only in the specifics, the general case is common, just having been exposed in Nigeria, but obviously more is secret than not.
Enron was only different in that they stole more money than they could afford, if it had some bigger cash cows, it would still be business as usual.
I mentioned elsewhere a Gadget that displayed UN data about quality of life (among other things) it tells a very different story than the one you lay out above.
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