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This would be a non-issue if you had a single buyer at the national level sourcing the drugs on behalf of patients.
by richrichardsson 7y ago
This would be a non-issue if you had a single buyer at the national level sourcing the drugs on behalf of patients.
- Loughla 7y agoMaybe I'm dense, but how would that inherently get rid of generics or change any of the existing regulations?
- richrichardsson 7y agoIt wouldn’t, but they could ensure the generic was effective and manufactured correctly. The problem is that a consumer can easily be ripped off, a nation state buyer will not.
- throwayEngineer 7y agoWhat a simple solution. Hope that doesn't cause a black market of effective, expensive drugs.
- refurb 7y agoWhy? If the single payer purchased the cheapest drug from one of these manufacturers, you'd still have the same problem.
- richrichardsson 7y agoOf course you wouldn’t, because they would ensure that they are the cheapest and most effective.
- larrywright 7y agoIf anything that seems like it would make things worse - someone else, completely disconnected from your care, making decisions about what manufacturer should provide your drugs. Government sourcing is riddled with plenty of cases of corruption and wrongdoing. Generally the worst case is that they overpay for something. With medicine, the worst case is that someone dies. I’ll pass.
- richrichardsson 7y agoCan you cite examples of this happening?
- larrywright 7y agoSure, here are just a couple: https://www.justice.gov/opa/pr/defense-contractor-and-its-ceo-plead-guilty-corruption-conspiracy-involving-scores-navy https://www.justice.gov/opa/pr/defense-contractor-and-its-ce... https://www.sun-sentinel.com/news/fl-xpm-1989-01-07-8901010981-story.html https://www.sun-sentinel.com/news/fl-xpm-1989-01-07-89010109... https://www.chicagotribune.com/sns-boeing-scandal-story.html https://www.chicagotribune.com/sns-boeing-scandal-story.html
- richrichardsson 7y agoOnly able to read the first article (2nd two are verboten for EU users), but all I read is that a private company was implicated, not a national level single buyer (such as the NHS in the UK).
- joe5150 7y agohow are the corporate buyers and managers at Rite-Aid who decide what generic to supply any more "connected" to my care? why should they be?