The Price of This Drug Went Up 100,000 Percent Since 2001 for No Good Reason
May 8, 2018 20:26:46 #
buffalo wrote:
Yeah, the article was bit lengthy. Did you notice he apologized for the length and promise to shorten it.
I do think there is a lot of validity in his comparisons and analogies.
Do you think politicians understand that the lines between what is considered a left/right...liberal/conservative issue, are often intertwined? Like expanding a social program AS liberal but using the conservative authority of the government to enforce it. The ACA is such.
I do think there is a lot of validity in his comparisons and analogies.
Do you think politicians understand that the lines between what is considered a left/right...liberal/conservative issue, are often intertwined? Like expanding a social program AS liberal but using the conservative authority of the government to enforce it. The ACA is such.
it was a bit long but interesting... I think the left leaning readers will accept his conclusions before the right leaning readers coming from a center point of view myself... like progressive VS regressive to a point...
May 9, 2018 01:30:57 #
bestpal38
Loc: Cedar City, Utah
PeterS wrote:
I thought you were a conservative? Why should pharmaceuticals be regulated at all? So long as insurance companies pay the price drug companies are free to raise prices as high as they can. Their job is to provide a maximum profit for their stockholders not provide cheap medication for their customers.
Shouldn't the Affordable care act taken care of this?? Maybe not so affordable after all
May 9, 2018 07:58:21 #
Part D (Medicare's prescription drug plan) was passed with the understanding that the government could not negotiate prescription drug prices with pharmaceuticals. This happened under bushie's watch and congress went along. So tell me again how big corporations like big pharma, big military industrial, big banking, big health INSURANCE and their money don't own and run government for their benefit and TRILLIONS in profits at taxpayer expense.
If voting really made a difference, it would be declared illegal.
If voting really made a difference, it would be declared illegal.
May 9, 2018 08:26:13 #
The line I was fed in the early '70's: "The drug companies need the money so that they can develop new drugs like antibiotics for the good of mankind": that has morphed into for the good of stockholders at the expense of the general US public. Other countries get a pass. Trump says he's going to fix this; lets hope he does.
May 9, 2018 08:30:03 #
free believer wrote:
The line I was fed in the early '70's: "The drug companies need the money so that they can develop new drugs like antibiotics for the good of mankind": that has morphed into for the good of stockholders at the expense of the general US public. Other countries get a pass. Trump says he's going to fix this; lets hope he does.
It will only change when health CARE is finally considered a right for ALL instead of a privilege for a few.
May 9, 2018 09:35:43 #
I agree 100%. My entire career in health care was based on that premise: I worked in nearly every type of hospital and spent over half of it in a place where anyone who came in the door received care regardless of financial or political considerations.
May 9, 2018 10:03:16 #
free believer wrote:
I agree 100%. My entire career in health care was based on that premise: I worked in nearly every type of hospital and spent over half of it in a place where anyone who came in the door received care regardless of financial or political considerations.
My brother is a 35 year medical doctor that has been doing strictly ER work for the last 25 years. He hate the "corporatization of medicine" (his term).
Patients are no longer considered patients by administration, they are customers and their satisfaction is now more important that the outcome of their medical CARE. The doctor was not nice enough. I did not get enough pain medication or the type I wanted. The room decor was tacky. The food server was not friendly enough. The food sucked.
The opioid crisis came about when pain became the 5th vital sign. Remember the smiley faces.
He also thinks that health CARE should be a right and not a privilege for a few, hates health INSURANCE and is for Medicare for All.
May 9, 2018 10:10:31 #
May 9, 2018 10:29:37 #
buffalo wrote:
My brother is a 35 year medical doctor that has be... (show quote)
Only problem is that for profit health care has become a huge part of GDP should a more people friendly system arise... I think like 17%+... the bean counters would go insane...
May 9, 2018 12:48:18 #
emarine wrote:
Only problem is that for profit health care has become a huge part of GDP should a more people friendly system arise... I think like 17%+... the bean counters would go insane...
No, the private, for profit health INSURANCE industry, for fear of losing its gravy train of extracting $600 BILLION from the US health CARE system, spends millions spreading myths, propaganda and even outright lies brainwashing sheople that they are they answer to America's screwed up health CARE dilemma and then those brainwashed sheople believing those lies repeats them.
The US health CARE system does not need the middle man of private, for profit health INSURANCE that extracts $600 BILLION from that system and then dictates how health CARE is to be administered.
Medicare for All is the answer. The government (Medicare) has NEVER interfered, in any way, in my 88 year old Dad's health CARE decisions between him and his doctors. They just pay their part. All the bullshit lies you hear about the government (Medicare or Medicaid) interfering in people's health care is just the private, for profit health INSURANCE industry, and their useful idiots, using those lies, myths, and propaganda to scare people.
Single payer universal health CARE is NOT socialized medicine! And those that say it is are demonstrating their ignorance!
Health CARE and health INSURANCE are NOT the same thing!
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