Think logically about what you are saying. Are you saying that YOU are the one whom should set the price for a drug company’s research efforts, or for a physician’s treatment? Any proposal to mandate “affordable” healthcare necessarily entails theft of the MD’s time at gunpoint.
I never said mandate. But too many assume medicine can be modeled completely on free markets. Free market works if the consumer has the option of not buying the product if the prices are too high. A drug that keeps you alive doesn’t fit that model. You simply cannot say no and die.