Healthcare: everything half price?

Drug companies are already putting this method into practice! I recently was prescribed a drug which there only the brand name available (no generics, no other options). The drug is very expensive, and the drug company decided to double the quantity it puts into its "package" so that you have to pay even more for the drug even though the doctor agrees you only need half as much. The pharmacies nor the doctors can order a lesser amount nor can they split it up because of the cautionary information that must be delivered with the complete package by law. Talk about being greedy!!

Well, in my case, the drug company lost. They got $0.00 from me. I chose another solution and spent the money in doctor's pocket instead.

Here's another wrinkle for your flattened earth Ron; a major health care fact about Venezuela...
An endemic parasitic water borne illness hits many people each year but it is treatable and survivable. As a consequence, this South American river blindness has left 100s of thousands of people functionally blind. By nationalizing its oil industry Venezuela has been able to trade oil to Cuba for the prevention and treatment of this disease. Instead of obscene profits for oligarchs and oil companies thousands of people can see again after a corneal transplant.

I know you believe that American corporations are inflicted with short-termism, but if expected prices for doing business in the future is going up and they may be constrained in raising them then, then only fools will not raise them now. It is not the same as your furniture store analogy. If you raise uncertainty in the future then prices are bound to reflect in the current prices.

The more Pelosi tries to “manage” the economy the more it will look like Zimbabwe or Venezuela. How are the “middle class” in Zimbabwe doing, Thom????

@Ron The more Pelosi tries to “manage” the economy the more it will look like Zimbabwe or Venezuela.
Very clever to choose a country that hasn’t had a middle class in a hundred years. In Venezuela the split is 10% rich and 90% poor an oligarchy of European descent and a populace of Native/Slave descent. Hugo Chavez is the first non-white President of Venezuela. He allowed the oligarchy to blare anti-Chavista propaganda 24 – 7 through almost every TV station in Venezuela during and after the US backed coup attempt and yet there persists the myth that Chavez is a rabid totalitarian. Chavez get re-elected because he has brought sight to the blind … literally!
Unfortunately, he can not cure your eyesight. Again no definition of middle class. How many Europeans do you think there are in Zimbabwe now????

Not hardly on the blasting as he controls the major TV stations and has nationalized the country.

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