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If this is the case, one might wonder if his inability to gain any traction in the Senate or elsewhere over this problem in 'several decades', might speak to his ability (or inability) to gain consensus for this - or any other issue - as President.
It's certainly true that the pharmaceutical industry lobby spend more money than any other lobby group, including Wall Street lobbyists and the military, and big Pharma donate tremendous sums of money to Congressmembers to gain their loyalty. A good start for change is to vote for politicians that is not funded by the corporations, but instead is funded by the people and represents the people.
It's certainly true that the pharmaceutical industry lobby spend more money than any other lobby group, including Wall Street lobbyists and the military, and big Pharma donate tremendous sums of money to Congressmembers to gain their loyalty. A good start for change is to vote for politicians that is not funded by the corporations, but instead is funded by the people and represents the people.
There are hopeful signs that the tide is starting to turn and that people are becoming more educated about whose best interest their representatives are really looking out for. jghorton's suggestion that he is ineffective is based on a political climate that is changing IMO (whether said climate change is believed in or not )
If we had a true free market health care system, we wouldn't have this problem. Of course, we haven't had anything resembling that in over 70 years. Now we have the worst of both worlds--a mix of Crony Capitalism (which is not capitalism at all) & Socialism, and no one even knows what a free market in health care even looks like any more since all of those people are dead.
If we had a true free market health care system, we wouldn't have this problem. Of course, we haven't had anything resembling that in over 70 years. Now we have the worst of both worlds--a mix of Crony Capitalism (which is not capitalism at all) & Socialism, and no one even knows what a free market in health care even looks like any more since all of those people are dead.
How do you think it would work if there was no government oversight or regulation in the delivery of electricity and gas to your home, with only one provider who would have the ability to raise rates as much and as often as they wanted to? Because that is what we are ending up with when it comes to healthcare. Drug companies holding patents for drugs can extort as much as they want from consumers whose lives may depend on those drugs. We've allowed so many mergers with health care providers and insurers that in some parts of the country there is only one option for those services.
Americans are too reliant on prescription drugs in general. If there wasn't such a high demand for pills that regulate the negative effects of bad lifestyle choices, prices would plummet. If you want to keep your money, do whatever you can to stay healthy because market-driven medical care isn't going away in any of our lifetimes.
If there wasn't such a high demand for pills that regulate the negative effects of bad lifestyle choices, prices would plummet.
Not really.. "Matthew Herper, who covers science and medicine for Forbes, explained in an article last week why the free market doesn’t work in the drug industry, either. He used the skyrocketing costs of many cancer drugs to illustrate his point. When the cancer drug Gleevec was launched in 2001, it cost $24,000 a year. Fifteen years later: $90,000. “It happened partly because competition increased and, as new drugs entered the market at higher prices, Novartis raised its price, too,” Herper wrote. “The normal law of supply and demand worked in reverse.”Free market ideology doesn't work for health care | Center for Public Integrity
Who said anything about supply? Supply means nothing when corporations collude to keep prices high. Demand is the determining factor and rising cancer rates will continue to ensure a healthy market for companies that produce cancer drugs
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