ACA Repeal/Replace: Progressives Face Moral Dilemma

[Warren Dew]

(01-17-2017, 07:11 AM)Mikebert Wrote:

(01-16-2017, 02:20 AM)Warren Dew Wrote: First, perhaps the main reason they are cheaper is that alll the drug research is paid for by us, and they only pay the costs of manufacture. 

We charge Americans boku for drugs because people like you are willing to accept it.

I'm willing to accept it because I don't pay for the drugs; my employer or the government does.  That's the whole problem, which I show how to fix in the post you're responding to.

The rest of your post seems to be based on facts from an atypical case; budgets for big pharma companies show most of the cost being the trials necessary for FDA approval.  That's what the Japanese bargain not to pay, but if everyone bargains not to pay them, the drugs won't be developed.  (Which would be fine with me, but not so fine with the people that use them.)