US healthcare is not a free market and never will be. http://www.businessinsider.com/daily-show-steven-brill-obamacare-2014-1 "Everyone says, 'Well it's a marketplace.' That guy [the cancer patient] has no choice in buying that drug. His doctor told him, 'This will save your life. You don't take it, you're gonna die,'" Brill responded. He further argued free markets must have two aspects â a balance between buyers and sellers and secondly, knowledge â neither of which the current U.S. system offers. "That cancer drug has a patent. That is a monopoly that the government has given the drug company. There is no other drug. That's the drug," Brill said. "It's not like he [the cancer patient] woke up one morning and said, 'Gee, I'd like to go shop for a cancer drug. I wonder what's out there. And if I like it, I'll buy it, and if I don't, you know, I'll buy a pair of shoes.'" "What does a free market usually have? There's a balance between the buyer and the seller. There is no balance now, you've got to buy that product." "In a free market, there's also knowledge. You don't have any knowledge. Your doctor is telling you what to buy â this cat scan and this MRI at a hospital that probably employs that doctor. So he's got an incentive to do it." Why won't US provide its citizens of good reasonably priced healthcare like Europe, Canada and south americans countries like Costa Rica?
I stopped watching 1 minute into it when Brill says that the cancer drug cost the drug company $300. What the hell is he talking about? It sure is convenient to remove all those R+D costs from the drug cycle and just count manufacturing costs. Sorry, if the rest of the interview is going to be a bunch of manipulated bullshit, it's not worth wasting my time watching.
Your mind was already made up...not people like you that we try to appeal to their sense of reason You got "yours" and you don't give a crap now. I get it.
http://www.nydailynews.com/news/nat...al-treatment-scorpion-sting-article-1.1152754 Mexican R&D paid for this scorpion anti-venom yet the woman was charged over 80K for medication that costs 100 dollars in the country that developed it. The average citizen would be committing a crime if they brought the anti-venom across the boarder and sold it at a 10% markup. Why has our government given the "health care industrial complex" the right to skull fuck people in medical distress? Speaking of "R&D" costs; why is it that Americans are forced to shoulder the burden for developing drugs? Why are drugs less costly in other countries that were developed here? Why do WE have to pay for the worlds medication?
Do you have any idea as to how many hundreds of millions of $$$ go into getting a drug approved? I do! Phase I trial, then a Phase 2. Finally, if the drug shows safety and efficacy a Phase 3 commences. The manufacturing is not a significant part of the overall sunk costs. I know of a small company who got approval for a potential blockbuster drug filed Chapter 11 due to all the costs in getting the drug approved and the slower than expected rollout. You seemingly know little about how a drug is brought to market.