COVID-19 treatments to enter the market with a hefty price tag

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15. Remember that what you are arguing

has been long a dream for those of us who are from the left - complete government-controlled health (all manner), with tight controls (including pricing) over health-related products, goods, and services. And at this point, it's not happening.

There was a saying that my Political Science/history major mom always told us growing up - "This is a capitalistic country and 'capital = money'".

When McCain-Feingold was gutted thanks to Citizen's United in 2010, Congress should have spent their time FIXING it to pass the muster of the-then SCOTUS so we would have some kind of campaign finance reform to put checks on these big corporations paying off our elected officials. But that didn't happen, the SCOTUS got even more right wing, and now we're stuck... at least for now.