Ethan Dotson’s Reviews > Everything Is Tuberculosis: The History and Persistence of Our Deadliest Infection > Status Update

p. 155 - The obvious injustice and unacceptability of denial of treatment or improper treatment because we, as a global society, determine care not to be "cost-effective." This is the point of the book.

P. 131-132 - The business model of the pharmaceutical monopoly or monopsony is that assured profit of the hostage taker demanding ransom. Worse yet, Johnson and Johnson levels an antidote stolen from the public to achieve their gains. Wealth is in fact being redistributed in our "free market," only upwards.

p. 124 - A new sort of colonialism was established by the world bank following post-WWII resistance to outright military domination and hegemony, a form of debt-slavery which kills many constituents. "Compliance" language instantiates the control exerted by this colonialism at the individual level. The language blurs the line of fault that in clear eyes leads back to the profiteer, the racist, and the imperialist.