“Congress needs to come up with a better, fairer, cheaper and more workable system.”
How about the Feds getting the hell out of our lives...return it to the states. The GOPe could have done something in Trump’s first term when they had the majority but the uniparty did nothing and here we are.
“How about the Feds getting the hell out of our lives...return it to the states.”
pre-existing conditions <-> expensive patented drugs
The federal government issues patents.
Patents could be limited by revenue and not by time. Right now, a drug company tries to get approval from all major countries all at once, which is very expensive and risky.
Slower but cheaper methods could be used.
A drug might be tested and approved only in say in the country of Georgia, which has modest per capita incomes and a homogeneous population.
It might then be tested and approved in say Ghana and Vietnam.
Then the FDA might say testing and approval in Caucasian, black and Asian populations indicate it is safe enough for US use.
A royalty might then be paid for each US prescription partially or fully paid for by public or private cost coverage based on the type of drug and number of treatment days dispensed until the applicable (me-too chemical, breakthrough chemical, first fit chemical, minor disease biologic, major disease biologic, Alzheimer’s beating) patent limit is reached.