Quote:Freedom means other people get to make their own decisions. And yes, I value that principle over individual human life.

"Other people".

 

Corporations are not people. The second something becomes the property of a corporation, it no longer has "human"  rights.

 

I agree with you on this 99% of the time. Completely. But if a company has a pill that is proven to save human lives and they price that pill in the stratosphere, government should have the ability to compel that company to make the pill affordable--not give it away--to people who will die without that medication. I just find the concept of "if they can't afford it, then let them die" to be a difficult pill to swallow (pun intended), especially when we know that the company that previously owned that pill was able to produce it for a matter of a few dollars each. If this new company has so many doctors and lawyers on staff that it suddenly costs $1,500 to produce a single pill, well, that would seem to be a lesson in corporate bloat that they needed to learn anyway, wouldn't it?

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