It’s a good sign that the price is going up overseas. They haven’t bee carrying their share of the development costs.
No its not. We don't win by Europe losing this war. Health care costs are outrageous everywhere. The problem is we have monopsonies buying from monopolies and the former are run by idiot sheep who are there for the fleecing while the latter are run by sharks and wolves. It is pure socialism layered with the crony capitalism that socialism necessarily evolves into. And you have BigConsulting (TM) advising the private monopolies how to maximize the take by minimizing the service. There is no free market in any of this. Oh, and let you forget - it's just a tax - just a taste, a little bit of grease to keep everything moving along.