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Author Topic:   President Trump endorses socialized medicine.
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Message 9 of 30 (867036)
11-19-2019 11:53 AM
Reply to: Message 6 by Faith
11-19-2019 10:39 AM


Re: For All? Who Pays?
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And they shouldn't be able to get away with such cheap medicines in other countries since it was the US that developed them and that's why it costs US so much. They need to pay more for what they get from us.
I guess you missed the massive price hikes on established drugs.
E.g The Turing Pharmaceuticals scandal. Turing - a company registered in Switzerland, bought rights to an old drug and raised the price from $13.50 a tablet to $750. I think the development costs on a drug that has been around for more than 60 years have been paid off.
The price hike on epipens was pretty bad, too.
The drug companies shouldn’t be allowed to get away with these tactics, and it’s the US system that lets them do it. Don’t demand that those of us with more cost-effective systems should be subject to the same nonsense.

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Message 23 of 30 (867088)
11-20-2019 9:43 AM
Reply to: Message 22 by caffeine
11-20-2019 9:00 AM


Re: For All? Who Pays?
The US situation is worse than that. Prices can vary wildly even for common treatments - Bonkers pricing of free flu shots (Ars Technica)

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