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originally posted by: ketsuko
a reply to: Metallicus
You want to know why your drug prices are so high? Because we subsidize those deep discounts mentioned. The cost of the drug doesn't go away because the government forces the company to sell for less. It just gets shifted to the rest of us. We already subsidize all the other socialized medicine schemes around the world as it is which has already distorted prices terribly badly.
No one even knows what a straight market cost for any of these drugs actually is thanks to the global nature of the market and number of governments shifting costs onto those of us who shoulder that burden.
originally posted by: rickymouse
originally posted by: ketsuko
a reply to: Metallicus
You want to know why your drug prices are so high? Because we subsidize those deep discounts mentioned. The cost of the drug doesn't go away because the government forces the company to sell for less. It just gets shifted to the rest of us. We already subsidize all the other socialized medicine schemes around the world as it is which has already distorted prices terribly badly.
No one even knows what a straight market cost for any of these drugs actually is thanks to the global nature of the market and number of governments shifting costs onto those of us who shoulder that burden.
Don't be telling people the truth about what is going on, Let them live as mushrooms.
originally posted by: seasonal
a reply to: rickymouse
Drug Prices: Middlemen pharmacy benefit managers causing higher prices
patientsrising.org...
If I were the drug companies I would blame other countries too.
originally posted by: seasonal
a reply to: rickymouse
One hand does indeed wash the other.