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People should be free to choose what is best for themselves as long as they do not infringe on the rights of others to do the same. I created this blog to discuss issues I have with big government, liberal media,and to talk about my support for capitalism and the Iraq War.
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It's not that they are offering things so cheap, it's the means by which they do it. Kind of like Sherman's march across the south during the civil war. Destruction is left in it's path.
Cheap stuff is great, but at what cost?
You could maybe even compare it to Bush's presidency. I don't have the exact numbers here, but I believe when he entered office, there either was no deficit or it was very low (relatively speaking). While in office, he's lowered taxes (Yay!!!!), but, it's been at the cost of the national deficit which is now around $9 trillion dollars (not so good).
Now, let the flaming begin please.
It'll be great when Wal-Mart has run every other pharmacist out of business, then decides not to stock the morning after pill because of pressure from the religious right, making it completely unavailable to most women who would need it. Sorry again, women.
So your statement contradicts itself. If they do run all other pharmacies out of business (impossible)then they would be the only supplier of the morning after pill - so why would they get rid of that item if it would make them the only provider and they can rake in the cash?
For the same reason they don't carry explicit content CDs, Adults Only videogames, or porn. WalMart is already making loads of money, they can afford to take moral stances against what they see as objectionable material.
And I do not think it is totally impossible for WalMart to undercut other pharmacies. Walmart is an incredibly efficient machine with enough scale to bargain heavily with product suppliers. The situation put forth by Mr. Darwin, though unlikely, is not impossible.
Darwin always has the argument that businesses are always in it for the money. He makes the argument that cnn and foxnews are not biased- they just slant that way in order to make money. So why would wal mart be biased against and not sell a product that would make them a ton of money especially if they knock out other businesses? Now Wal Mart is a family store hence they are not going to sell Adult movies and such (I actually think there all laws against that specfically say those materials can only be purchased at certain stores) and they do sell some explict cd they just carry a warning - same as violent video games.
But lets take a look if Wal Mart does get all pharmacies extinct and decides not to sell the pill. How hard would it be for a business to pop up that only sells the pill? Free market will prevail. It will find a way to get a in demand product to the people. If money can be made a product will be sold. The electric car failed becasue of the free market- hybrids are succeeding now becuase of the market. The market always prevails.
Wal-mart will decline to sell it because it'sa very low-volume item and the people who probably need it can't afford it if it's a high-cost item, so the profits on it are low; and the political backlash from people who they depend upon for support costs them way more than the profits form that pill. Similarly, pharmacies sellign that one product aren't feasible becuase profits would be too low to cover overheads.
Listen, Wal-mart refusing to stock the morning after pill issn't theoretical, they already did it. They only reversed their decision after activist judges in Massachusettes forced them to carry it in that state, and several women filed lawsuits against them. I'll point out that you would want both of those things to not be able to happen, so in your preferred system, they would still not be selling the morning-after pill, meaning that if they drove other pharmacies out of business then it becomes unavailable.
Now, in this case activist judges and our litigious society were able to get them to stock the pill, but whatever the next thing is, they may not be able to (once Wal-Mart Hospitals have driven all other medical practitioners out of business, good luck getting an abortion).
I'm not saying this is all for sure, I'm just saying that monopolies are problematic for a number of reasons, and as a free-market advocate, you should be cautious of them on general grounds regardless of their latest press release.
Your argument fails from the beginning of your last statement - becasue the morning after pill will not be a low volume unit if no other place sells it.
I do know that Wal Mart refused to sell it and that was fine with me. But if there are no other places nearby that sell it and Wal Mart can make a profit on it they would do it.
Now if they felt they could make a profit on that item but sales would be down overall because of backlash from the "regular" customers then they obviously would not sell it. But somebody would step up and sell that item. Listen if there is a demand for a product there will always be someone willing to sell it. The drug war will never be over becasue there will always be a demand for drugs. You can arrest all as many drug dealers as you want but somebody will always pop up in their place. Just becuase Wal Mart wants to stop the supply does not mean they will be able to stop the demand.
"becasue the morning after pill will not be a low volume unit if no other place sells it."
Yes it will. I don't have numbers to back up my argument here, but I would bet that there aren't a lot of people who need/want the morning after pill, hence, it's a low volume unit.
I would go so far as to say that it's probably one of the least prescribed medications out there.
From an earlier post of yours, "If money can be made a product will be sold." If you're already selling a high volume of prescription drugs and medications, it doesn't cost a lot to stock one small box of morning after pills. If you don't have the profit from all the other drugs, it makes no sense to ONLY sell one type of drug. I'm not sure what all is required to sell prescription drugs, but I'm guessing that the overhead costs are pretty numerous thus making it VERY difficult to make money selling the morning after pill and only the morning after pill.
You're talking out your ass Diatribe.
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