Health

How Gene Patents Are Putting Your Health at Risk

Hey, remember that blue flu that was going to sweep

Thank goodness we have equal opportunity government that distributes its concern among all living creatures.

Without a market for blood, people will die. Do we really want to sacrifice more lives in service to the god of socialist economic management?

We are being conditioned to believe that for every problem, there is a government answer, and nothing lies outside its purview and expertise. Even mild cases of food poisoning merit a nation-wide investigation and crackdown on bad guys, who, we are encouraged to believe, are always in the private sector and never in the public sector.

The Caribbean island of Cuba has recently been experiencing a strange outbreak of dengue.

The problem for the survival of a market economy arises when the voters permit or encourage the expansion of government power to such an extent that private businesses can gain short-term profits through the intervention into the competitive market by state officials.

When government on all its levels enters health care, the industry has to adjust to every dollar spent and every order given.

Allowing terminally ill people to bypass the drug testing and approval process will not create a "right to experimental drugs." It will not destroy the incentives for patients to participate in the clinical trial system. It will not make it impossible to gather scientific data on how drugs work. What it will do is allow individuals who are fully capable of rational choice to make the most important choices of all according to their own values.

My wife came across this story. A 16-year-old wit