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Saturday, March 25, 2017

single payer system and drug price caps/cuts

We need a single payer system because our current profit based system is not working. This won't happen. What can happen is price caps on drugs.

Case in point: it is ridiculous that pharmaceutical companies can add a radical to an insulin “molecule”  whose patent is about to expire, call it a new drug and jack the price of this “new” drug.  I am not on insulin yet and resent the thought that I will some day be treated like a fucking cash cow!

If Congress can not or will not cap or cut drug costs, then we should be allowed to buy drugs from foreign sources. The objection will be that the FDA needs to protect us from those nasty foreign drugs. Aren’t we importing foreign made drugs as it is?

Must we be forever subject to nanny state agencies pimping for the uber rich pharm CEOs?


big pharm, foreign drugs, importing foreign drugs, drug cost caps, reducing drug costs

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