Totally unfettered Free Market Capitalism at it's finest:
Christine Daniel doesn't get any more paydays for ruining any more lives - not for the 15 years of her prison sentence anyway. But what stopped her was the criminal justice system. It wasn't the market; it wasn't the invisible hand; and it sure as fuck wasn't Angie's List.
A California doctor who duped patients out of more than $1 million after claiming her herbal supplements could cure cancer has been jailed for 14 years.
Christine Daniel charged patients up to $100,000 for six months of treatment, which she claimed could also cure diabetes and multiple sclerosis.
'Daniel robbed victims of more than money – she also stole their hopes and dreams for a cure,' U.S. Attorney Andre Birotte Jr. said after the doctor was sentenced.A little interference from an oppressive gubmint might've come in right handy for somebody like Paula Middlebrooks. The good doctor charged her $60,000 for "treatment" with a concoction consisting mainly of Beef Flavoring Extract and a Sunscreen Preservative. And then, not long after "Dr" Daniel triumphantly declared she'd been cured, Middlebrooks died - her breast cancer having spread through her body unchecked.
Christine Daniel doesn't get any more paydays for ruining any more lives - not for the 15 years of her prison sentence anyway. But what stopped her was the criminal justice system. It wasn't the market; it wasn't the invisible hand; and it sure as fuck wasn't Angie's List.
