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enough that it stopped working as a shield. kind of like how if you shoot enough rockets from a school or hospital it becomes a valid military target.
Literally how does that work? If you kill enough civilians they suddenly become valid military targetS? Whut?
 
From, not at. Basically a School/hospital/worship place is almost always a no-go. But if it starts being used to fire rockets from, it becomes a valid target.
That's all well and good, but it doesn't answer my question of "How many of those doctors, journalists and aid workers were Hamas terrorists though?"
 
Replace right with Chad replying that they pay for all those thousands of innovative drugs US labs release every year.

Missing the point there. The point is that living conditions for vast numbers of Americans are so bad, that when the chad Chinaman reads about it online, he finds it unbelievable.

The "innovative" drugs you boast of? They're priced out of reach for normal people. And they often do a less good job at treating something than do older medicines, which would be cheaply available if it weren't for the "Greeed is eternal, hoo-man!" mindset of the medical industry there.

Not that living conditions for many Chinese are wonderful either... but he won't be reading about that on Rednote.
 
The "innovative" drugs you boast of? They're priced out of reach for normal people
There wouldn't be a market for them if "normal people" couldn't afford them.

Are they prohibitively expensive? Absolutely. But that's because it's expensive to make them.
Can they be made cheaper? Once again, absolutely. But there will be drawbacks to every solution you or I can think of. And at any rate, medicare reform isn't really on the cards right now.
 
There wouldn't be a market for them if "normal people" couldn't afford them.

Are they prohibitively expensive? Absolutely. But that's because it's expensive to make them.
Can they be made cheaper? Once again, absolutely. But there will be drawbacks to every solution you or I can think of. And at any rate, medicare reform isn't really on the cards right now.

The solution is deregulation. In a free market, a high price of a good is a signal for competition to come in and offer something better at a lower price.
In an un-free market, there will be artificial scarcity due to government-granted monopolies, or due to lack of manufacturing capacity, or due to all sorts of things that do not really need to be there.
 
But that's because it's expensive to make them.
Actually it's because the US healthcare system is leveraged to the tits against the consumer from how literally every layer engages in probably-illegal use of sticker shock and deceptive discounting. The massive price-tag isn't  supposed to be payed, it's supposed to be haggled down throughout the supply chain without actually losing profit margins.
 
Missing the point there. The point is that living conditions for vast numbers of Americans are so bad, that when the chad Chinaman reads about it online, he finds it unbelievable.

The "innovative" drugs you boast of? They're priced out of reach for normal people. And they often do a less good job at treating something than do older medicines, which would be cheaply available if it weren't for the "Greeed is eternal, hoo-man!" mindset of the medical industry there.

Not that living conditions for many Chinese are wonderful either... but he won't be reading about that on Rednote.

to be fair.

Pretty much every country on the planet is in a crappy situation right now.

Every ones fundamentals are some flavor of suck and fixing it is going to be painful as hell.
 

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