Unconstitutional..................
Unfortunately, price controls, in whatever form, will be necessary for medicines. While the drug companies may be entitled to $50.00 per pill they are NOT entitled to $750.00 per pill.
We don’t have health care.
Too many people aren’t healthy.
All we have is “death delaying”.
Last time I checked, everyone dies. Its just a question of how much money other people are forced to fork over to delay someone else’s death.
From my perspective, I have pretty much nothing saved up for retirement, so why the f#*$ should I pay for someone else’s “health care”?
My retirement plan involves a cinderblock, handcuffs, and the reservoir. When I can’t work anymore, I will put both hands through the cinderblock, snap on the handcuffs, and step off into the reservoir or the (water-filled) quarry. Simple, and neat. (and full-proof)
Leftists just do not understand that financial incentive is what drives creation & production of EVERYTHING. Take away the incentive for profit, and the motivation to create & produce evaporates (not entirely, but certainly at large scale). Yes, those medicines are expensive and the manufacturer is making a large profit at the probable expense of patients’ ability to afford them ... but if not for that large profit, there would be no incentive to create such medicines in the first place.
Amid the Left’s fondness for “redistribution of wealth” and “soak the rich” and “consequence-free sex” etc, they fail to see what ISN’T created as a result. They want to optimize what is (to their own flippant preferences), not realizing that in doing so, what is soon becomes replaced by isn’t.
Greedy rich? redistribute! ... why aren’t the productive, well, productive any more?
Consequences to carnal acts? control/abort! ... why is the population shrinking, and the tax base with it?
Medical costs too high? cut their profits! ... why aren’t lifesaving advances progressing?
Idiots. Think “value” just grows on unwatered trees.
This is what PhRMA lobbied for, to give the government control over the industry so that they could leverage monopoly pricing power. They spent tens if not hundreds of millions lobbying for just that - and reaped enormous ill-gotten profits as a result.
The bird has flown, ship sailed, horse left the barn. Sanders’ proposal on one drug is completely insignificant in light of ACA, and Medicare Part D before that.
“What they fail to realize, however, is that in their attempt to improve access to life-saving medications like Xtandi they are actually threatening the future of innovative medicine.”
They know exactly what they’re doing.
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Just another example of how socialism does not work because it removes incentives to produce.
OF course Bernie Sanders is dangerous. He’s a friggin communist and never tried to hide it.
http://nypost.com/2016/01/16/dont-be-fooled-by-bernie-sanders-hes-a-diehard-communist/