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Pharma Lobby Furious Over Wildly Popular Effort to Curb Drug Prices
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this post was submitted on 30 Aug 2023
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A win is a win, so the Americans should take it were they can but this will just push costs elsewhere. I image they'll just recoup the profit on the next 10 most popular drugs were they can gouge. We really need to start talking about comprehensive healthcare reform, a revolution so to speak, that stops this stupid patchwork and actually give us universal healthcare.
So are Libraries and Roads, what about it???
It opens a crack to do it again. And again and again. If it didn't hurt them they wouldn't fight it so hard. But I do agree we should be trying for something more comprehensive. That said, I don't think the country is currently capable of doing something like that. We're too broken.
I I'm off the firm belief life saving medicine shouldn't cost the consumer anything. The government should be in charge and negotiate pricing with the businesses. But they're rather bleed us dry.
If they could gouge them, they probably would be doing so already.