Santorum was correct talking to that mother. He was defending the principle of the free market. The presumption that she had a right to free medications is a liberal invention. Are anti-Rick types are defending liberalism here now? And, IIRC (it was discussed at FR at the time), the drug she cited as necessary for “keeping her son alive” was for ADHD and significantly less expensive than she claimed. Just an all too typical manufactured liberal moment. Do it to Obama and we buy her a ‘free’ house. Do it to Santorum and receive a valuable lecture on the truth, free to the tax payers.
I’m afraid you haven’t got it. What Santorum meant was the drug companies should increase the drug prices in order to make more profit in order to ... blah-blah.
That’s NOT free market. Free market means to put different companies in concurrence on the same products, which will LOWER the prices NOT increase them. Giving to some specific companies the control of the market is the reason of soaring costs of the healthcare. It’s the government and FDA fault.