Nonprofit Working to Block Drug Imports Has Ties to Pharma Lobby

Re:Nonprofit Working to Block Drug Imports Has Ties to Pharm... by joering2 on Tuesday April 18, 2017 @01:51PM (#14141107)

What truly upsets me is that not a single politician really knows or wants to see how to fix healthcare!

Right now its like pulling a rope - we keep Obamacare at cost of billions of dollars, or we lose it at cost of millions lives affected, eventually.

Meanwhile big pharma thrives and examples like yours prove how corrupted US system is!

I'm still waiting for one single politician (not its not Trump) to actually start fixing healthcare from the bottom up! Fix the cost of drugs, therapies, etc, and all of sudden we need 1/10,000th of the initial costs.

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Re:Nonprofit Working to Block Drug Imports Has Ties to Pharm... by rhizome on Tuesday April 18, 2017 @02:04PM (#14141246)

Lots of people are working on this, but there are also lots of moving parts. It sounds like you know how large the health industry is, do you have any idea how hard it is to change a multi-trillion dollar market?

Evergreen suggested reading: http://steve-yegge.blogspot.com/2009/04/have-you-ever-legali...

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Re:Nonprofit Working to Block Drug Imports Has Ties to Pharm... by joering2 on Tuesday April 18, 2017 @02:49PM (#14141696)

okay I guess in this case since its such a big issue, let's leave it like it is and add another 10 trillion in debt because we need to pay 400x what other countries pay for the same drug.

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Re:Nonprofit Working to Block Drug Imports Has Ties to Pharm... by rhizome on Tuesday April 18, 2017 @06:43PM (#14143693)

Fallacy of the excluded middle, man. There's other options.

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