You might not think its a right, but you'll definetly have a good time. Stone Giant: "For the record all of the really great advances in the fight against MS have come from abroad and the most effective drugs have come from European and Israeli drug ccompanies. These companies have programs in place to help US citizens like my wife who is on medicare pay for her high copay (without medicare or any insurance her shots would cost $4000-$6000 a month)."
The big question is would these drugs have been developed by companies if they didn't have a profit motive at the time (and even if the answer is yes, what about all the other medications that have come down the pike in the last decade for things like cancer, high blood preasure etc. etc.)?
Even though these manufacturers aren't US based, they do sell to the US public (and probably charge more then they do in Europe and elseware). I don't know that as a fact, but I suspect its true. In any event they are businesses that operate in the free market system (take away the free market system and you might have problems).
As for teachers being good, hah! My daughter has 7 teachers at her highschool, one for each class (its public, but probably one of the best in Daytona) of those she says 3 teach, the rest don't (or can't or both, two are totaly dismal wastes). In any event, teachers make pretty good money (according to Salary.com the average is $52,113 (so about a half to a third of what the average doctor makes at around 150,000 (though some specialities like pediatrics are more like 120K) with the teacher having only 2 years (at most) education after college (and most don't have their masters, plus majoring in education is cake walk compared to pre-med (believe me I know). The average doctor spends 11-15 years of advanced training before they can even go into practise (and alot of that income they make goes to paying malpractise insurance as well as their student loans which can be very sizable.
In any event, when someone is dealing with your life (making sure they don't cut the wrong artery or nerve in surgery say, or prescribing the correct dose of medication, or properly diagnosing a disease etc.) you really want the very best (preferably someone that cares about people, and is very good at what they do, but the former is optional IMHO if you've got someone digging around in your body you want the guy least likely to fuck up (and often times deep feelers are the worst doctors because they get too emotionally involved (it'd be like doing surgery on your child) its a bad idea.
You'll be amused to know it's called the Conservative Party. You'll be familiar with it as the party Mrs Margaret Thatcher led.
or for treatment that has not been proven to be effective. 
