---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Date: Sat, May 20, 2017 at 2:00 AM Subject: FYI - Benzathine penicillin shortages are bringing back diseases all over the world — Quartz To: For-profit medicine will save us all! The invisible hand of free-market medicine will be a helping one! Oh wait... ======= "Over the years though, penicillin descended from a wonder drug used on everything to a cheap, old antibiotic that pharmaceutical companies decided was no longer worth their while to produce for an ever-shrinking group of indications" https://qz.com/984705/syphilis-is-on-the-rise-because-penicillin-isnt- profitable/ -- Check out the Commons Transition Plan here at: http://commonstransition.org P2P Foundation: http://p2pfoundation.net - http://blog.p2pfoundation.net <http://lists.ourproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/p2p-foundation>Updates: http://twitter.com/mbauwens; http://www.facebook.com/mbauwens #82 on the (En)Rich list: http://enrichlist.org/the-complete-list/