Illinois governor signs law capping insulin costs at $100 per month

Re:Illinois governor signs law capping insulin costs at $100... by Mirioron on Wednesday January 29, 2020 @12:11PM (#22182981)

If you are rich, get cancer and can pick any country to get treatment in, which country do you go to? Obviously it would depend on the specific cancer, but I think the US would be the best bet in aggregate.

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Re:Illinois governor signs law capping insulin costs at $100... by harryh on Wednesday January 29, 2020 @12:55PM (#22183620)

Correct. Cancer survival rates in the US are generally the highest in the world (it varies a bit by cancer type).

https://www.cdc.gov/cancer/dcpc/research/articles/concord-2....

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Re:Illinois governor signs law capping insulin costs at $100... by Someone1234 on Wednesday January 29, 2020 @12:24PM (#22183177)

And if you're not rich, and get cancer, which country do you go to? I bet in aggregate it is never the US.

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Re:Illinois governor signs law capping insulin costs at $100... by Mirioron on Wednesday January 29, 2020 @01:00PM (#22183702)

Well, it depends on what citizenship you have. The point is that if it's expensive in the US now then perhaps in the future it will be cheaper and available elsewhere.

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Re:Illinois governor signs law capping insulin costs at $100... by claudeganon on Wednesday January 29, 2020 @02:07PM (#22184561)

The purchasing and marking up of expired drugs/patents and blocking of transition to generic status seem the obvious counterexamples here...

https://hbr.org/2017/04/how-pharma-companies-game-the-system...

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