[HonestConservative]

IIUC, he said you don’t have to buy it, but if you don’t then you have to pay your own costs.

What is wrong with that, what am I missing?

When my drug (an orphan drug would cost 2172 retail and 20 through my own private program) costs 6800 a pop, because I have to pay for 2 other peoples drug portions who don’t or won’t pay, I get a little pissy.

[AmericanMade1776]

Obama , Osama?

[Radix]

FDA requirements have caused the average new drug to require something like 13+ years of testing to gain final approval. Millions and millions of dollars are involved for every new drug.

Drug companies spend fortunes on R&D in the USA. Some of the same drugs are approved in much shorter time than that, in Europe.

Honestly, I took a Course in Pharmacology a couple of years ago, and though my memory of certain stats is likely imperfect, my overall impression is that pharmaceuticals are way more expensive here in the USA than they ought to be.

I realize that I am fortunate because my health has always been good. That fact of course could change in an instant.

I totally sympathize with pissy. It is a hard knock life.