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> It costs pennies to make and generates little profit. Only a few thousand patients need it each year. And it is covered by insurance. This is exactly how one
by notyourday 8y ago
> It costs pennies to make and generates little profit. Only a few thousand patients need it each year.
And it is covered by insurance. This is exactly how one leverages inefficiencies of the insurance market place - insurance companies cover it and they are charged that rate.
- arcticbull 8y agoNot for the uninsured, or the underinsured (with enormous deductibles) -- and that's the real problem. With a national socialized program, they could negotiate the prices while ensuring everyone who needs it can get it.
- notyourday 8y agoSo far, all the investigations failed to find uninsured people who got hit with this charge. They have found people lamenting that if such people had no insurance, then it would have been very expensive for them
- simonh 8y agoOf curse you can't find people who directly paid such an outrageous cost, we're talking about people who by definition can't afford medical insurance. What on earth makes you think any of them can afford $750 a pill? That's the whole point of this issue, it's not that people get gouged which is bad enough, it prices people out of getting the vital treatment they need even though the true economic cost of the treatment is trivial.