state ownership of pharmaceutical production

[kazoolaw]

The State rarely does anything well, cheaply or efficiently.

Except healthcare, education, emergency services... that sort of thing.

The only state that does those things well is the State of Utopia.

It's one thing to make a throwaway comment, another entirely to provide some supporting rationale. Those countries that do provide state owned healthcare, education etc, tend to rank at the top of economic and wellbeing indicators, eg these ones. The top 10 all provide state owned healthcare and education.

So, not utopia, just enlightened.

#edit: I initially missed your first post, with the link to the Reason article. If I had, I wouldn't have bothered to respond. I understand you have that weird American syndrome where, probably because you have not lived anywhere else, you can't conceive of a system that is not fundamentally broken the way yours is. As I said in a previous post, I am genuinely sorry you live in a failed state. Just don't project your own issue onto onther nations, some of us are able to manage a lot better...

Universal healthcare, socialist, failed state?

Like Venezuela?

At least its gold escaped to Africa.