Really? The epi-pen is the fault of the liberals and their darned rules.
That’s really a load.
The Top 5 Industries that Spend the Most on Lobbying in the United States
Industry Money Spent on Lobbying
(1998 - 2010) Percent Change
1 Pharmaceuticals & Health Products $2.08 billion + 249 %
2 Insurance $1.49 billion + 119 %
3 Electric Utilities $1.41 billion + 169 %
4 Business Associations $1.17 billion + 277 %
5 Computers & The Internet $1.14 billion + 218 %
Computers I can expect, as it’s changed dramatically since 1998.
It’s all about people gouging Joe Blow, because Joe Blow doesn’t have a lobbyist to send to Congress (supposedly those are our Representatives ha!)
And people have been driving up to Canada or going to Mexico for decades now, to help from buying overpriced medication.
It is directly the fault of our Congress to give us a chance to bid for prices on drugs.
When Congress created Medicare's drug benefit in 2003, it directly barred the program from negotiating prices.
Once a pharmaceutical company sets its price, the government-run plan that insures 49 million seniors is required to accept it.
Who was in office again in 2003...I forgot?
Medicare part D is still unpaid for.
(Also btw...Bush tried really hard to privatize Social Security, which is something the Rep. have been trying for years to do, had he succeeded when he tried we could have seen it whisked away with the rest of peoples’ retirements and savings into the pockets of a few bankers and hedge fund managers when Wall St. collapsed...the very same people Trump is hiring to be his “Economic Team”...the team with no actual Economists on it)
Trump says he will negotiate with them -
Republican frontrunner Donald Trump has embraced a policy that liberals love: allowing Medicare to negotiate for drugs. He told a New Hampshire crowd that doing so could save "$300 billion per year."
"We don’t do it," Trump said. "Why? Because of the drug companies."
Democrats have tried to give Medicare this power since at least 2003, when Medicare Part D, which gives beneficiaries prescription drug benefits, passed. Hillary Clinton, Bernie Sanders, and President Barack Obama all agree with Trump that Medicare ought to have the authority to push back against drug companies that ask for really high prices.
Republicans have opposed such policies, saying that lower prices would leave drugmakers with less money for research — and leave Americans with less innovation in the pharmaceutical industry.
Yep...but what we need is less regulation on quality and pricing...let the free market price for the Epi Pen decide for us all and see how much we get screwed for.
And if we had a true “free market” then the banks would have gone down in flames when they crashed the economy...not the American people and businesses.
(Again...who was President at the time - I seem to have forgotten again.)
As for the affordable care act...I should remind everyone that medical bills are still the number one reason for filing bankruptcy in the US.
We are letting health insurance companies and hospitals and big phama bankrupt our citizens with a health system that is the most expensive in the world...yet ranks right around 37th in terms of quality of care and satisfaction.
How come?
Must be poor legislation and
not more unregulated greed?
Seems to be a bit of both.
I agree with Stu that it could easily be fixed if people wouldn’t play obstructionism 24/7, even though “Obamacare” was a Republican health plan that the Dems stole and tweaked.
Whatever...they both suck.
Pick ur poison.