The government must also address the warped incentives in hospitals that encourage the generation of profits from drugs, tests, and state-of-the-art technologies.
We can't, in the same breath, condemn the poor from ever receiving means to social beneficiation as a result of the generation of profits from maximizing on our capital.
In fact, the industry described above is responsible for the development of medicines to save lives and alleviate suffering, not the generation of profit for its own sake.
