Originally Posted by mickeycrimm View Post
Originally Posted by smurgerburger View Post
How are drug companies "ripping off Americans to the benefit of foreigners"?

They sell the drugs for what they can in different countries. In single payer countries they have to accept whatever price the national health program sets or they lose the entire national market.

Even if the whole world had the US system it would not drive down the market price here, as far as I can see.

You're calling for price fixing, of course that's a socialist solution.
Trump is asking big pharma to lower prices. He's not asking for a price fix.
So AT BEST they lower prices 20% then raise them back up after election year? You think this is really going anywhere significant?

They're going to keep those prices high as long as patent law allows them to milk every drop they can due to their hard earned R&D. Right! ???

Big pharma isn't scared of Trump. He has no leverage over them.

So last job I had I worked for a guy. Was diagnosed with narcolepsy in adulthood after having severe issues through school. I'm not sure about the drugs but he finally found something that worked, GHB. So he was a highly functional guy who had made a lot of money on his own, but it basically required a mixture of GHB and modafinil. Now GHB used to be a *solvent* and i'm sure still is. You could buy it as some sort of cleaner in electronics stores. THen you can get drunk off it (or some similar state.. relaxed is my understanding). It is a cheap chemical. Few dollars a bottle or whatever.

Well now some company realized GHB could be used for narcolepsy and did a study. THen they have a patent on GHB as a medication and somehow exclusive rights. My boss paid 10k+ a month. IIRC, 10k was his insurance's deductible, but guaranteed 100% it was at least 10k a month.

Now thats some real American ingenuity there, but you can point many ways in which the whole thing is fucked. but LOL.