hehe, ok I see what you mean! Sure, if the consumer is receiving value (not dying thanks to thyroid medication or etc) then this is certainly a good thing. how

hehe, ok I see what you mean! Sure, if the consumer is receiving value (not dying thanks to thyroid medication or etc) then this is certainly a good thing. however as you say, we want the cost of the product/service that is keeping you alive to be near the cost of what it actually costs to deliver that result. In the case of nearly all drugs, a $100 brand name pill really only costs $1 per bottle to manufacture, with a lot of profit, legal and lobbying fees, and salary bloat baked into the margins along the way. So $14,000 a year really honestly should be around $1,400 a year. Like, if i get my appendix out, and I pay $1,400, the hospital and surgeon are still making awesome money. It just so happens that in the US, they've inflated the price tag of that surgery to $80,000 lol