Pretty crappy reason to dislike Obamacare. We’ve been, according to this article, subsidizing the world’s drug supply with our tax dollars and insurance premiums. Now they’re whining that our subsidy will be gone and that’s going to affect us as well as them. Tough. Let the socialized medicine countries help foot the bill for the drugs.
this “Fundamental Transformation” of america has GOT to stop NOW!
It’s partly true.
There will still be innovation where the government hasn’t figured out how to pressure the market with generics (biologic drugs), or there are politically powerful patient advocacy groups (e.g. oncology, Parkinson’s, Alzheimer’s).
Yes, the US health system will become more like Europe’s regardless of whether Obamacare is repealed.
The question is whether we become like the Netherlands (pretty good), or like the UK or Poland (can you say “snuff party”?)
Stories like this make me quite angry. I have an illness that will worsen as time moves on. I’ve read about some promising things on the horizon, but Obamacare is going to put one hell of a chasm between here and the horizon.
“Before acid inhibitors, ulcer sufferers had only operations that cut off ulcerated portions of their stomachs”
I owe my life to Zantac. I could drink 4 bottles of Maalox/Mylanta and it wouldn’t touch it.
The average drug in the USA takes 11 years of clinical trials and 1.2 BILLION dollars —just one drug.
If it turns out it might help other diseases also, it must be re-tested for that other disease.
Because the documentation process is so very rigorous many other countries simply accept the judgements of the FDA.
Obamcare might sink ALL these other countries.
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“the president’s specific words: I’m “really good at killing people,” authors Mark Halperin and John Heilemann write”
Many of the same drugs are made by the same companies in other countries. The drug companies thank you for helping the more equal consituents by supporting poor, “developing” countries when paying the highest prices by far. A special thanks to those of you not employed by government offices or global corporations: those of you who’ve been buying the drugs with your own money for all of these years.
Medicine and drug companies have been bathing with pathological special interests in socialism for a long time, BTW. A true free market would be a much better start. Give the doctor $25 and a bottle of whiskey. Bite down on the stick, while he fixes you up.
So everybody loses. Americans lose the most because only prices are rising. Another political method to bleed Americans of their treasury is all am seeing in this article. Dang these politicians!
This great news comrads. No new drug advances will eliminate the expense of drugs.
Secondly, and most important, Sandra Fluck gets free birth control.
I presented a similar argument to some “fellow patients” at my doctor’s office some 20 years ago, when Hillarycare was the topic of the times.
Those other patients pooh-poohed my arguments, but they weren’t thinking about how intrusive government would have to be, and how much the country would be changed by something like Hillarycare.
My predictions are slowly coming true, but with a different name for the same government program.
People who don’t bother to think, or can’t think, are what’s ruined this country.