A Capitalism Prize Could Cure Ebola

     The growing Ebola outbreak in America is very serious--not only because it is usually deadly and contagious--but also, because there are only a couple of known treatments with doses in extremely low supply.  One of the leading ones, known as "ZMapp", can take months to create--time which Americans likely do not have.

How did a catastrophic disease that has been known about since 1976, evade the medical industry's attention--when the economic demand for treatment could not have escaped Pharma's imagination of the profits that could be capitalized on, if there were millions of doses stored and ready to be sold?

Government Health Care is to blame.  True: in a Capitalist system, pharmaceutical companies would have the freedom to set prices for their products as they so choose.  But, that is what drives the cures to be in existence in the first place.  Under Government Health Care, there is shoddy treatment in very limited supply--so, if one doesn't want to spend a lot to save one's life, one is forced to not have the option of a big purchase (as well as a long life).

Ebola is a crisis--and, it's just going to get worse.  While Obama runs around with his guys in body suits, quarantining and killing off the infected population, I propose a market-based solution.  There should be a prize put forth in America in order to cure the disease--that being a Congressional law that the American medical company that cures the most Ebola-infected Americans, through the sale of its products to private individuals and businesses, will be granted the following charter:

The government of the United States of America hereby recognizes a Separation of State from Economics of the awarded Company in the form of a charter of Capitalism--defined as government being prohibited from compelling the awarded Company: to pay taxes, adhere to regulations, and have government force initiated against it in any physical way--for at least the next 100 years.

That, individuals of planet Earth, is how one cures the Ebola epidemic.

Paul Wharton
Objectivist Capitalist Medicine Promoter

Special thanks to Eli Lilly & Co. (LLY) for being the fuel of my mind