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A comment on Trump Signs Executive Order Compelling Disclosure of Prices in Health Care. Parent comment

Re:Trump Signs Executive Order Compelling Disclosure of Pric... by wefarrell on Tuesday June 25, 2019 @12:59PM (#20276272)
"You could drop the cost of care just de-regulating"

That's a huge oversimplification and isn't true in many cases, for example when a single drug company owns the patent on a life saving drug. The laws of supply and demand are not in favor of those who require that drug to live.

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Re:Trump Signs Executive Order Compelling Disclosure of Pric... by nybble41 on Tuesday June 25, 2019 @04:22PM (#20278495)
> for example when a single drug company owns the patent on a life saving drug

Patents are a form of regulation. De-regulating would include voiding those patents. The government created that monopoly and all its attendant problems; there is absolutely no reason why it can't remove it just as easily.

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Re:Trump Signs Executive Order Compelling Disclosure of Pric... by conanbatt on Tuesday June 25, 2019 @01:47PM (#20276824)
Sad, but true. Access, Quality, Cost.
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