I am soo happy to be Canadian right now - I can't imagine having that right taken away from me - especially at 6 weeks! Most women wouldn't even know they're pregnant yet!
For various reasons, insulin isn't the best example of this practice. Foremost of them, it doesn't have a true static development cycle. You can't recoup cost of ongoing research.
But as to the general question, about percentage of return, it's never going to be simple. If a governmental body becomes active in regulation, then you're superseding the general capitalist principals of pricing determined by supply and demand.
But there's always a moral question of placing health before profit.
Ideally, a humane society finds a way to protect all of it's individuals in an equitable manner.
The hypocrisy works in so many directions that I didn't even know existed.
Like on the one hand you have the alt right screaming about the first amendment like they believe in it or something, then turn around and scream about Islam and Judaism, ignoring the part where the first amendment grants right to religion. They have a totalitarian ideology and yet they complain when they feel their rights are being removed
Then on the other side, antifa, you have people screaming about the alt-right full of suppressing sorts of totalitarians (which they aren't wrong about) but then have this "suppress the suppressor" mentality that inevitably leads up to making an authoritarian state despite the fact that the sorts of people who I'd expect to be in antifa are communists/anarchists.
As far as religion is concerned, the so called 'religious right' (bible thumpers) can't even be fucked to follow their own religion properly. Literally the entire point of Christianity is to love each other, and yet somehow being gay is inexcusable.
It's all really 
Well, no. It is democracy, not a pure democracy, sure, because no pure government of any kind works. No other country this size or this diverse in lands or ideologies or this numerous in population even really attempts democracy on a large scale and merely have a thin guise of democracy (aka, russia and china) Canada's a different case because they have only about a tenth of the population of the US. The electoral system is to essentially make sure there's representation of all issues is presented within all 50 of the states and bring representation to all the States' population's issues whether it be social or agricultural or what have you. Honestly the need for this comes out of the fact that there isn't a hub like NYC in every state, actually going by your suggestion the state governments in the mid-north and the south-west would have almost no fair representation at all in government and so we couldn't even present their issues correctly.
Really, I think it's quite a brilliant system even if it's highly flawed, but Rome wasn't built in a day, and the US is already passed the population of Rome at it's height, so considering that, I'd say we've done a fair job in creating an outline. Now it's time to hammer out the details.
Then there's the problem of where to draw the line. When you're country has a population of 333 million all slapping together politically, it kind of becomes hard to pinpoint.
That's why we have judges, to interpret the intent of laws, and set precedent for other cases down the line. Convicting anyone of murder for a miscarriage would never happen in a country like the United States, even if a vaguely written law appears to open the door to that possibility.
actually what they describe is a republic, as per the US being a democracy, a republic AND a constitutionalist country, yes there’s a very fine difference between all three of those things. The idea of even having a president at all is the republic piece of our structure. But you are right, if we didn’t have the electoral college, the government wouldn’t listen to any of the problems that farmers and natural resource harvesting folks have.
The issue really comes up tho when it’s like those areas start dictating what larger masses of populations are and aren’t allowed to do like for example when you make it illegal for gay people to marry and shit like that tho. Or when that 30% of people who don’t believe in climate change manage to get a climate change denialist into power and makes it harder for the 70% to fight climate change because their states make all their money off of coal mining and stuff
Without the private medical businesses in the US, all those countries, including my own, with affordable and "free" healthcare couldn't exist. Solving that situation, which places an unreasonable burden on US citizens who can't afford health insurance, is so complicated we'll probably have to wait for a quantum computer to do it for us.
Those are the same judges that marry children off to pedophiles3, so allow me to be very doubtful that "It would never happen"
I agree with you on how messed up that is. Don't get me started on the system turning a blind eye to abuses in the name of religious freedom.. but I think when it comes to this specific issue, there'd have to be strong political and public will to lead to anything like women falling afoul of the law for natural miscarriages.
the very reason those states are shitting out those bills now of all times is because Kavanaugh is in the Supreme Court, which means if anyone were to challenge those bills, chances are his right wing mind set will unravel the previous precedent in Roe v Wade or at least that’s the theory, better get use to him as well, he’s in the SC until he either leaves on his own accord or until he dies
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I chalk up a whole lot of inefficiency to too many MBA's playing MD's, interfering with providers' ability to do their jobs and patients' ability to receive care, and getting paid for it.
Do you know why I enjoy caring for private pay patients more than, say, my Medicare or Medicaid patients? It has nothing to do with the patients themselves, since I love them all. It has everything to do with people who aren't health care providers meddling in health care. When I have a private pay patient, I don't have to worry about getting in trouble for providing a service that's well within my scope of practice but isn't covered. What the patient needs, the patient gets, and gets it with the least interference.
Doctors' offices and medical clinics also love what we call prompt pay, because it bypasses a whole lot of middlemen. The providers get paid better, the patients get to pay less, and nobody has to fight with a bunch of guys in business suits to give or receive the care they need.
Honestly, I think we'd be better off if we limited insurance to catastrophic coverage.
I feel blessed to live in the U.S., because it allows me to have certain rights that unfortunately aren't in other places. The negative part is that most of the people that I'm around keep the law but don't have morals or true empathy.