Over at slashdot.org, they have a pretty nifty feature. As a subscriber, for free, you can keep a “journal”, or “blog”, of sorts. It doesn’t have nearly the nifty features I get here with Drupal, such as photos, private messages, recipes, etc… but nevertheless, since they are hosted on such beefy servers, over such a massive connection, with hundreds of thousands of daily readers, it’s a compelling proposition to maintain one’s weblog there.
This morning, for the first time in several months, one of the people I’ve flagged as a “friend”, Ironica, posted a new journal entry. And it’s compelling.
Ironica offers a potential way to begin returning more accountability to the health care industry. Not doctors, specifically, but requirements for the common good of mankind that certain drugs (AIDS drugs, for instance), after the company has recouped their investment, begin mandatorily lowering prices. I’m not a fan of government intervention, but there are certain industries where it is ethically acceptable, and possibly even necessary, that regulation intervene in the interest of protecting consumers from otherwise rampant fraud and extortionary pricing.
What do you think about Ironica’s idea?