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Re:If wages are to rise, workers need more bargaining power by opencl on Wednesday June 06, 2018 @09:41AM (#17247058)
The skyrocketing sticker price of healthcare absolutely has led directly to skyrocketing insurance premiums and out of pocket costs are still high for many people depending on their insurance plans.

The vast majority of the 'generous' college financial aid is loans with partially subsidized interest rates. Default rates on these loans are high and keep rising.

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Re:If wages are to rise, workers need more bargaining power by paulpauper on Wednesday June 06, 2018 @09:52AM (#17247127)
regarding drugs, I suspect a reason why sticker prices are high because drugs are expensive to develop, and drug companies must recoup costs and make a profit before the patent expires. A couple years ago Scott Alexander did a bunch of posts about healthcare cost,s but I don;t think anyone reached a conclusions as to why prices keep rising so much. It's more like a bunch of possible factors, but no definitive pinpoint cause.
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Re:If wages are to rise, workers need more bargaining power by thedaemon on Wednesday June 06, 2018 @10:26AM (#17247383)
Greed is not a cause to you?
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Re:If wages are to rise, workers need more bargaining power by nunya213 on Wednesday June 06, 2018 @09:53AM (#17247139)
In response to paul's bs about drug prices.

http://www.chicagotribune.com/business/ct-drug-price-sofosbu...

Costs $1000 in the US and $4 in India.

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