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Monopolistic practices == industry protected from competition by government violence.

If the health industry wasn't, you'd have people making a killing importing 2 dollar generic antibiotics from overseas to compete with the 70 dollar generic antibiotics sold at CVS.

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You'd also have people performance plastic surgery in their shed killing people.

There's obviously middle ground somewhere, it's just we as a country lately have a REALLY hard time accepting the fact that compromise isn't a four letter word. At least some of us...

And then the scandals when it turns out these generics are fakes as happened in Africa with faked AIDS drugs or drugs with a nugatory amount of active ingredients

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