There is no market for healthcare and medicines in the US. Its just an illusion. US runs so much on the whims of the health insurance industry, that $1000 pill

There is no market for healthcare and medicines in the US. Its just an illusion. US runs so much on the whims of the health insurance industry, that $1000 pill justifies a rich/middle class family's $1000 a month insurance premium. Would the families/individuals pay the same expensive premium every month, if the pill was available for even $100 in US? I pity the guy who jacked up the price of the pill in US, and got burned online. All he was doing, was to take a bigger chunk from the stinking rich health insurance companies, and providing the product in the US "Market". I live in US and have spoken many Americans as to why they don't think of going to India for medical reasons. I was expecting some kind of a condescending / patronizing response about quality of service etc. Often, the response is that they have a "sunk cost of expensive monthly premiums", which gives them the illusion that getting treated in US costs lesser. The blow of a $1000 pill is softened, to those who pay the expensive premiums. As someone who moved from India to US, I can know market prices of individual tablets /medicines in India, but its way too difficult to know the "market rate" of medicines in US, unless you go by the rates shown by your health insurance company.