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Re: A washingtonpost.com article from rmodugno@aol.comFrom: Robert J Woolley (wooll005@tc.umn.edu)Thu Jul 5 12:57:59 2001
On Thu, 5 Jul 2001 register@washingtonpost.com wrote:
> You have been sent this message from rmodugno@aol.com as a courtesy of the Washington Post (http://www.washingtonpost.com). Are you seriously endorsing this? If so, do you have no comprehension of how markets work? Stockholders would see or anticipate that profits would decrease, so they would move their money elsewhere. The drug companies would then lack capital with which to continue making the AIDS drugs, or other drugs, for that matter. There is no such thing as a free lunch. Besides, we could spend, literally, trillions of dollars giving away drugs to prolong the lives of those afflicted, and not have any effect on the epidemic. As long as people continue to willingly engage in activities that they know put themselves at risk, this proposal is simply putting an ambulance down in the valley. I would venture a guess that no more than 5% (and probably much less than that) of people with HIV acquired it in some way that they did not know was risky. I do not believe in shielding people from the natural consequences of their freely chosen behaviors.
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