Why drug prices in America are so high

Re:Why drug prices in America are so high by snowwrestler on Wednesday September 14, 2016 @10:18AM (#12497070)

The argument against government single-payer is to imagine the politicians you dislike the most in charge of your health care. Would Democrats still favor single-payer if they knew that Republicans would get to make all the policy decisions about what is covered?

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Re:Why drug prices in America are so high by Nursie on Wednesday September 14, 2016 @10:31AM (#12497199)

Yet other countries seem to make it work quite well and keep it a-political. No party decides these things.

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Re:Why drug prices in America are so high by snowwrestler on Wednesday September 14, 2016 @10:46AM (#12497387)

Some other countries make it work. Other other countries have health care systems that are way worse than the U.S.

So: it's good to know that things are different in other countries, but it doesn't actually address the point I was trying to make.

Of course single-payer works if we imagine that things in the U.S. are different from the way they actually are. Lots of things work that way.

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Re:Why drug prices in America are so high by Nursie on Wednesday September 14, 2016 @11:12AM (#12497737)

I'm not aware of any countries where that specific aspect, choosing which drugs are available, has become politicised and toxic.

I agree that the two-party adversarial politics in the US is poison though, and causes a whole lot of "this is why we can't have nice things" moments.

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Re:Why drug prices in America are so high by otterley on Wednesday September 14, 2016 @12:15PM (#12498436)

> Of course single-payer works if we imagine that things in the U.S. are different from the way they actually are

That's a fantastic argument for changing the way things are in the U.S. It happens one vote at a time.

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Re:Why drug prices in America are so high by lintiness on Wednesday September 14, 2016 @11:42AM (#12498096)

more along the lines of: the government that can't seem to make anything cheap ever and that is mostly lying and full of shit all the time wants control of my WHAT?

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Re:Why drug prices in America are so high by ZeroGravitas on Wednesday September 14, 2016 @03:10PM (#12500268)

This is just a variant on "get your government hands off my Medicare".

The healthcare "market" in the USA is deeply, pervasively and often bizarrely regulated by the government.

Don't think of it as free market versus government regulated, because that's simply not true.

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