Re:Biohackers take aim at big pharma’s stranglehold on insulin
by tsimionescu on Monday June 28, 2021 @03:44PM
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The way price controls are achieved for medicine in the first world is through negotiation between the state public Healthcare system and pharma companies. This actually, provably works, and has worked for decades, and is much more efficient than in the US in fact - both in terms of healthcare outcomes, and Healthcare costs.
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Re:Biohackers take aim at big pharma’s stranglehold on insulin
by bko on Monday June 28, 2021 @03:49PM
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I guess you have a lot more faith in "state public Healthcare system". Many comments were about how corrupt the politicians that led to this system were, so I imagine they would be equally as corrupt when they're "setting prices".
The alternative would be to allow people to break the third party payer system and allow people to buy and import drugs from whomever they want. You can do this now on the grey market, but it would be great if it were legalized. Then you can probably get it for the same price as any other country, probably even lower. If you want, you can have the state cut every insulin user a check for $10 a year or whatever it would cost in a free market