Tuesday
05Dec2006
The Beneficence of Government Monopolies
Tuesday, December 5, 2006 at 11:44AM
Whatever would we do without the thoughtful, caring and beneficent monopolists regulating our pursuits of life-saving procedures? Recognizing that some dialysis patients were taking the initiative to secure transplants overseas rather than linger and die on the transplant waiting list, the US and the UK have pressured China to stop providing transplants to foreign patients.
In this article published in yesterday's New Scientist, UK surgeon Kevin Rigg describes China's decision as "very encouraging."
Encouraging to whom? To patients in the US who currently wait five years for a transplant? Nope. How about patients in the UK, where they perform less than half as many transplants per capita as the US? Nope. Perhaps then the government sponsored transplant monopolies in the US and UK. Ladies and gentlemen, I think we have a winner.
In this article published in yesterday's New Scientist, UK surgeon Kevin Rigg describes China's decision as "very encouraging."
Encouraging to whom? To patients in the US who currently wait five years for a transplant? Nope. How about patients in the UK, where they perform less than half as many transplants per capita as the US? Nope. Perhaps then the government sponsored transplant monopolies in the US and UK. Ladies and gentlemen, I think we have a winner.
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Reader Comments (1)
this is very good and actually now victims really needs benefits of such decisions