Not sure it's the price as much as it is a culture of people who just pop a pill for every single thing in life.
Also, I'm going to stick my neck out here and point out that liberals have complained about pharmaceutical pricing for decades, and conservatives have usually been on the side of saying that trying to cap pharmaceutical profits is anti-capatalist, thus Anti-American.
If people are going to do a 180 on this, I suggest they prepare for getting flack from two fronts.
The libs who are going to say we're hypocrites for switching sides on this. This was a huge part of the ACA hoopla during Trump's 2016 campaign.
The conservatives who still hold the anti-capatalist stance. These are the ones who tanked this EO the first time Trump signed it in his first term.
I just suggest that people brush up on the history of all this before they rush off to try to red pill normies on the matter and then look foolish because they didn't do their research on it. Which is what we should expect on an elite research board.
It never made sense to me that the libs get to 'own' lowering drug prices. Our healthcare market is not a market in any sense of the word, in as much as we individually participate in it.
I've never had a problem with the idea of letting the US bargain for me in the market. That's what other countries do - that's why they have lower drug costs. They negotiate on behalf of their citizens. If you want to sell your drug in Canada or Mexico, get prepared to make a deal. It's better than NO income from Canada or Mexico, or the UK, so you'll take it.
The problem becomes because we have an unrealistic idealized view of the US healthcare market that we don't allow our government do the same, so the pharma companies make up what they lost in their negotiations by washing it through the bureaucratic black-box nightmare that is "Health Insurance". We tie one hand behind our back and then get mad when we get slapped.
Not sure it's the price as much as it is a culture of people who just pop a pill for every single thing in life.
Also, I'm going to stick my neck out here and point out that liberals have complained about pharmaceutical pricing for decades, and conservatives have usually been on the side of saying that trying to cap pharmaceutical profits is anti-capatalist, thus Anti-American.
If people are going to do a 180 on this, I suggest they prepare for getting flack from two fronts.
The libs who are going to say we're hypocrites for switching sides on this. This was a huge part of the ACA hoopla during Trump's 2016 campaign.
The conservatives who still hold the anti-capatalist stance. These are the ones who tanked this EO the first time Trump signed it in his first term.
https://www.cms.gov/newsroom/press-releases/trump-administration-announces-prescription-drug-payment-model-put-american-patients-first
I just suggest that people brush up on the history of all this before they rush off to try to red pill normies on the matter and then look foolish because they didn't do their research on it. Which is what we should expect on an elite research board.
It never made sense to me that the libs get to 'own' lowering drug prices. Our healthcare market is not a market in any sense of the word, in as much as we individually participate in it.
I've never had a problem with the idea of letting the US bargain for me in the market. That's what other countries do - that's why they have lower drug costs. They negotiate on behalf of their citizens. If you want to sell your drug in Canada or Mexico, get prepared to make a deal. It's better than NO income from Canada or Mexico, or the UK, so you'll take it.
The problem becomes because we have an unrealistic idealized view of the US healthcare market that we don't allow our government do the same, so the pharma companies make up what they lost in their negotiations by washing it through the bureaucratic black-box nightmare that is "Health Insurance". We tie one hand behind our back and then get mad when we get slapped.