Why There’s a Severe Shortage of Cancer Drugs

Re:Why There’s a Severe Shortage of Cancer Drugs by codersfocus on Wednesday June 28, 2023 @03:26AM (#36503451)

The first one is a great idea. Nationalizing pharma is much simpler and better roi than trying to nationalize all of medicine. As pharma makes up half of medical spending, it is by far the lowest hanging fruit.

Options 2 and 3 are wretched ideas. It’s the reason we have $100 insulin instead of $3. It’s also why the US has inferior treatments in certain areas.

Logically the FDA kills X amount of people per year by hindering rapid and accessible adoptable of medicine. They save Y by hindering the adoption of bad medicine.

In theory Y is higher than X, but I am skeptical if that is still true.

I’d recommend you watch Dallas Buyers Club.

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Re:Why There’s a Severe Shortage of Cancer Drugs by elcritch on Wednesday June 28, 2023 @04:59AM (#36504032)

Nationalizing all pharma would be a bad idea. It'd never pass congress either.

However, medicare having say the ability to produce generic drugs if they're not being produced sufficiently might fly.

Another would be Medicare a greeting to buy X amount of some drugs from non-profit manufacturer setup specifically just to produce generics. Though even Medicare being able to negotiate prices would be huge wins.

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