Lots of comments focused on having a good paying job with comprehensive benefits (insurance). I don’t think that is even the solution here. The main problem is

Lots of comments focused on having a good paying job with comprehensive benefits (insurance). I don’t think that is even the solution here. The main problem is that lifesaving medications have prices spiralling out of control to the point where it becomes unaffordable for people to get it. Not everyone will be lucky or capable enough to have a job that will allow them access to the medicines they need through some benefits or financial salary. Will regulations work such that medicines categorized as lifesaving will be capped at a price that is affordable for people? Or is a solution based on ensuring patents are used not as a leverage to gouge prices but to protect the intellectual property and not financial commodity? Solutions abound but when the greed of a few is being upheld, then it just becomes a reality that people becomes the bearer of bad news and in turn have to swallow the bitter pill of unaffordable medicines.