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What Is Free Enterprise? Free enterprise, or the free market, refers to an economy where the market determines prices, products, and services rather than the government. Businesses and services are free of government control. (Oxford Dictionary)
I want to understand EXACTLY who is FREE, and whose FREEDOM are we talking about when we suggest that one of the things that makes America great is our system of free market or free enterprise? Are those who cannot afford to pay double the price of a life-saving drug, free to, hmmm, live a limited life? Or maybe the freedom is just for the Corporations, their CEO’s, and their Board Members? Of course, Paxlovid is just most current drug whose price has skyrocketed, I suppose because those who have the wealth to live a freer life, have no time for the peasants who are poor.
I understand the mechanics of Capitalism, but when items such as food, as housing, as health care are considered as frivolous as vacations, new cars, second or third homes, jet planes, and yachts, I DO NOT UNDERSTAND Capitalism. Yeah, I understand that Drug Companies spend money on research, but I do not understand, how, if those Corporations are in the business of trying to KEEP HUMANS HEALTHY, and they actually have medicines that KEEP HUMANS HEALTHY, why is that too often than not, too many HUMANS cannot afford those drugs, created to keep them healthy!
Pfizer more than doubles price of lifesaving Covid-19 medication Paxlovid as US transitions out of pandemic phase. The price of the lifesaving Covid-19 antiviral medication Paxlovid will more than double as the United States transitions out of the emergency phase of the pandemic, drugmaker Pfizer said Wednesday. The list price, before insurance, will be $1,390 for a five-day course, Pfizer said in a statement. That’s 2.6 times higher than the $530-per-course price paid by the US government, which provided Paxlovid free to patients during the pandemic. (CNN)
