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When people's lives are at stake, there should be some ethics.
I wish. I'm going through this problem right now. I'm on two newer meds that aren't available in generic. My insurance company didn't cover one of them and it covered the other one with a pretty steep $85/month copay, which I could barely afford. After jumping through a lot of hoops, I got the first one covered for $400/16 doses For that price, getting approval didn't do me a lick of good because I still can't afford the medicine. On the other one, I fell into the insurance "donut hole" after just three months and now the copay has increased from $85/month to $324/month for 30 pills. I'm living on samples now, but after they're out, I will probably have to switch to a less effective medicine, since I'm not eligible for any help with medication costs.
I think this is why capitalism fails in essential services like health care. Nationalize the entire thing right down to every single last lab. Take the profits and use them to hire more doctors, pay for more college educations for gifted students who are turning their back on medicine because of the high cost of education and complicated roadmap of health coverage.
There are a lot of ways to make a million dollars in America. Healthcare should not be one of them.
There should be an amendment to the Constitution that in no way, shape or form should there be a dollar of profit earned off healthcare.
In fact, we need a really smart lawyer to step up and sue the entire industry by saying they are preventing the American Public from their pursuit of happiness and life through their actions. Investors are making billions upon billions off our healthcare.
This is one guy and is not representative of big pharma in anyway shape or form.
Would not be surprised if he is doing this to bring attention to obamacare and the dem policies in gereral where the feds just raise taxes instead of addressing why the prices are escalating. There is no need for the feds to 'take action' and excede its legislative leash as most suggest. Within the business there are strategies and this is a tremendous opportunity for pharma to out maneuver this guy.
On the other hand government control is a circle jerk.....and its supporters lie through their teeth or are just bewildered and confused. Obama has had a laser focus on the VA issues since 2008. Problem not solved!
"In 2011, New York Times columnist and Princeton economist Paul Krugman wrote an article praising the Veterans Health administration, calling the VA a “huge policy success story, which offers important lessons for future health reform.”
“Yes, this is ’socialized medicine,’” Krugman said of the VA system. “It works, [and] suggests what it will take to solve troubles of U.S. health care more broadly.”
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For that price, getting approval didn't do me a lick of good because I still can't afford the medicine. On the other one, I fell into the insurance "donut hole" after just three months and now the copay has increased from $85/month to $324/month for 30 pills. I'm living on samples now, but after they're out, I will probably have to switch to a less effective medicine, since I'm not eligible for any help with medication costs.
