[dempedempe]

Which is great until those hills directly or indirectly affect people's health. Healthcare should not be a hill. Prisons should not be a hill. Politics should not be a hill.

[ativzzz]

Pick your poison - would you rather have too many hills or not enough hills? Turns out limiting hill making is complex, and requires an even bigger hill that calls the shots

[Podgajski]

I would, in fact, rather, we had a flat landscape.

[dempedempe]

Europe's doing a pretty good job at limiting hill making, while still having plenty of hills for healthy competition.

[robertlagrant]

They affect health by creating enormous numbers of new fields for research and medicine, which after patent expiry is generified and manufactured cheaply for eternity.

[dempedempe]

You can have medical research without charging $1000 for an ambulance ride, $10k - $20k for having a child, $100,000 for staying in the hospital a few days. Those are the things I'm talking about.