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There exists a moral line, somewhere. In this case, parents of children with a rare, dangerous condition and the doctors that treat them find themselves on one
by themartorana 11y ago
There exists a moral line, somewhere. In this case, parents of children with a rare, dangerous condition and the doctors that treat them find themselves on one side.
If the price increase had been negotiated, or given fair warning, or was tied to any documentation of the cost of production, it would be much more tolerable - or at least understandable.
Instead, this follows a recent trend of exploiting sick people for profit through mind-boggling price increases for critical medications after sometimes decades of very low prices. There is most certainly not a 2000% increase in the cost of production - if there were, there would likely be a lot more transparency.
- Frondo 11y agoYeah, you know what it seems like to me? That old saying that you can't put a price on human life, that's what these pharma companies are testing now. "Will they pay, even if we raise the price by 20x?" That's not the kind of behavior I'd like to look back on for my own life, when I'm at the end of my days.
- wyager 11y ago> That old saying that you can't put a price on human life It's a nice platitude, but it's obviously untrue. The unstated implication is that a human life actually has infinite value, which is even more obviously untrue. It's easy to find an upper bound on the value of a human life; would you be willing to pay ten trillion dollars of public money (which would otherwise be hypothetically used to finance schools, research, etc.) to save the life of a single child?
- niels_olson 11y agoEvery day is the last day you have to make a decision about the rest of your life.
- forrestthewoods 11y agoIf the manufacturing cost is unsustainable expensive then who burdens the moral obligation to pay it? Me? You? That other guy who is over there and conveniently not in my backyard?