From: Randall Randall (wolfkin@freedomspace.net)
Date: Thu Jan 17 2002 - 23:35:06 MST
On Friday 18 January 2002 00:05, Damien Broderick wrote:
> The lucky sick old Americans will have their rebate paid for by everyone
> else who buys Pfizer products, but in this case the poorer purchasers are
> making a far larger proportional contribution to the rebate.
In a free market, people who would otherwise be making this "contribution"
could easily pay for a different provider's product. Unfortunately, the
current situation is monopoly (at least, in the US).
-- Randall Randall <wolfkin@freedomspace.net> Crypto key: www.freedomspace.net/~wolfkin/crypto.text On a visible but distant shore, a new image of man; The shape of his own future, now in his own hands.-- Johnny Clegg.
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