“Maybe the government could help fund promising new drug research”
They already fund a lot. It is money down a rathole. This is not the answer.
With medicine, we are now at the crossroads of technology, government, and morality.
You more than likely cannot have all three involved at the same time.
Are you willing to fund transplants and advanced treatments for the third worlds sick children?
If not you are immoral.
If so, you are allowing government to steal from taxpayers immorally.
Doctors and hospitals pretend to do charity cases, but that money comes from paying customers. It isn’t charity.
Britain is facing this issue before we are because they are socialists, and thus immoral and uncaring.
We also face a similar fate.
Everybody cannot get every advanced treatment that they want every time without delay.
If you cannot afford to pay for a treatment yourself, don’t expect someone who cannot afford their own health insurance to pay for it through increasing premiums, or taxation.
Socialism fails at a much lower level, but we will, at some point allow treatments to be withheld costing lives. It is inevitable.
> They already fund a lot. It is money down a rathole. This is not the answer. <
Based on a post by exDemMom (#39), I think I’ve got the answer. Change the law to greatly extend patent protection on new drugs. Since there’d be more time to make a profit, there’d be less of a need to mark prices up.
Of course this will never happen. Any extension would be opposed by the liberals. They would never give any break to those filthy, heartless pharmaceutical companies.