Is it any wonder health insurance is expensive, and thanks to Obama everyone is forced to pay.
This drug just got the FDA's OK -- and an $89K price tag
This drug just got the FDA's OK -- and an $89K price tag
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89k per year drug?
- Thread starter Kemosloby
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McBell
Resident Sourpuss
"thanks to Obama"?
I was completely unaware that Obama set the prices for drugs.
Source please.
Mandatory health care.. is Obama's doing. Everybody must pay their fair share, Obama said. Now you see what you're paying a share of...
McBell
Resident Sourpuss
WTF does the ACA have to do with Marathon Pharmaceuticals setting the price at $89,000 or so a year?
The ACA forces everybody to pay their "fair share".
McBell
Resident Sourpuss
what does that have to do with Marathon Pharmaceuticals setting the price at $89,000 or so a year?
Are you claiming that the ACA makes/requires/forces Marathon Pharmaceuticals set the price at $89,000 or so a year?
Shadow Wolf
Certified People sTabber
Nothing about the ACA is making people pay 89K for the drug. I'm not sure if you understand how our health insurance works, because we usually pay a monthly free and sometimes a copay (paying a much smaller amount than the full bill, such as $25 instead of $89,000) for doctors visits and medications, and unless a doctor is outside of the insurance's network, a treatment experimental, or just not covered, you don't pay these high rates if you have insurance. If you don't, well, that is why we have medical bankruptcy.
Not that I'm supporting this system, but really it is partially because of insurance companies that prices are so high, whereas the ACA doesn't address such prices.
I think people must forget whose money the insurance companies money is. Insurance is when a group of people pool their money together. It's as good as a banking scam because the whole thing revolves around there not being a run on the bank. Obama made sure everybody takes part in the scam.
Shadow Wolf
Certified People sTabber
The ACA has nothing to do with price setting, and in Holland, where they pioneered the health care system the ACA is based on, they have the same individual mandate without these prices.
Pharmaceutical companies don't make medicine cheaper for those without insurance. The pharma makes the same amount of money regardless of if it's out of pocket or via insurance.
Augustus
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Are you against having medical insurance?
No not really, They rely on very deep pockets that only an insurance pool would have when charging 89k for a drug. It's like everybody putting their money in a bank, it attracts robbers, except they do it legally.
You just don't get it, the ACA makes it impossible for people to say no, to boycott the system, at least not without taking a penalty.
The concept is good but the government should not make it mandatory, or regulate small business out of business.
Shadow Wolf
Certified People sTabber
But that has nothing to do with pharmaceutical companies jacking their prices up to outrageous heights. But everywhere else drugs are cheaper. But everywhere else doesn't have pharmaceutical companies all over the place telling you to ask your doctor about their pills. The ACA has nothing to do with that either. The jack wad that made healines recently for jacking the price of a drug he recently acquired to a level far beyond unreasonable didn't say it was the ACA, he said it was just a business move to make profits.
I'm not sure how accurate this is, but I was told yesterday that this same drug in the UK was only 1400.00 a year.
No they don't, as its been pointed out to you many times, plenty of places with mandatory health insurance don't have this problem with pharmaceutical extreme venture capitalism. You're barking up the wrong tree.
Shadow Wolf
Certified People sTabber
It's probably true; maybe not the amount but it is very probably that there is a huge discrepancy between the American price compared to the UK price. My meds here, there American price is about $500 a month; my overseas prices are such that coughing up $500 at once would get me about a 10 month supply.
It's worse here because mandatory health insurance does not fit with free enterprise. ACA makes it mandatory for us to pay while free enterprise capitalism makes it optional for them to jack the prices up as high as they think they can get.