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The issue isn’t spreading healthcare costs, but that healthcare costs have been skyrocketing, making costs higher whether they’re spread around or not. The pri
by hylaride 2y ago
The issue isn’t spreading healthcare costs, but that healthcare costs have been skyrocketing, making costs higher whether they’re spread around or not. The price of insulin, which in theory is not protected by patents (there are incremental “improvements” which are, but even the “old” ones are still skyrocketing in price), has almost 10X’d since 2000. Something is very wrong. Same story with epipens and most of the rest of healthcare.
- Taikonerd 2y agoThe WSJ recently had a story about how America is running out of generic drugmakers: [0] [0] https://www.wsj.com/health/pharma/america-is-running-out-of-generic-drugmakers-another-one-is-on-the-brink-dbd8bb17 https://www.wsj.com/health/pharma/america-is-running-out-of-...
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