As much as I'm a proponent for free markets & lower taxes, I want universal healthcare in the US. When big pharma companies & hospital systems are forced to ne

As much as I'm a proponent for free markets & lower taxes, I want universal healthcare in the US. When big pharma companies & hospital systems are forced to negotiate with the government for rates, costs will go down. My 5 year old's type 1 diabetes quarterly supplies are billed at $6,000 per shipment. Looking at what's in the box, I'm hard pressed to guess there's more than $100 of material costs. The technology has been around forever, and yet these companies continue to extort these exorbitant prices because nobody had said 'Enough!' Same story with a friend's Gleevec. $14,000 per month. It's time to put cost controls in place. If universal care is how that's achieved, then so be it.