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remove pharmaceutical companies ability to set their own price. remove the insurance ability to negotiate prices. Ensure American's right to Healthcare.
by bozhark 3y ago
remove pharmaceutical companies ability to set their own price.
remove the insurance ability to negotiate prices.
Ensure American's right to Healthcare.
- lostlogin 3y agoThese are all correct, but as an individual you’re pretty much limited to writing to your representative. You can’t opt out in any immediate sense.
- the_real_sparky 3y agoSee my nearby comment on Direct Primary Care. It is possible to partially opt out of the system, and fortunately it is the part of the system that you touch most often (or should be anyway).
- deepsun 3y ago[flagged]
- shjake 3y ago> pharmaceutical companies But it’s hospitals/labs which are as bad or much worse in this regard. “Greedy” pharmaceutical companies are just a boogeyman, insurance companies, hospital admin and doctors are just fine with charging “random”/arbitrary fees based on clients perceived ability to pay and not in anyway related to actual costs.
- hellotomyrars 3y agoIt’s both. Pharmaceuticals companies are not an innocent bystander. Everyone is happy to get this big piece of the pie, including drug companies.
- shjake 3y agoOf course not. It just seems that they might actually be the most transparent segment of this entire system which makes more visible. And well… from the society’s perspective high/very-high prices for new drugs for a decade or so (20 years seems too long though) might be a good deal if it results in very high investment into R&D.