Skyrocketing drug prices leave cures out of reach for some patients

[RodISHI]

Disgusting..

Sophisticated drugs are opening the door, scientists say, to an era of "precision medicine."

They're also ushering in an age of astronomical prices.

New cancer drugs are routinely priced at more than $100,000 a year — nearly twice the average household income.

Experimental cholesterol drugs — widely predicted to be approved this summer — could cost $10,000 a year

A drug for a subset of people of cystic fibrosis, a lung disease that kills most patients by their early 40s, commands more than $300,000 a year.

Even with insurance, patients might pay thousands of dollars a month out of pocket.

For many people, care for cancer and other serious diseases is "a doorway to bankruptcy or poverty," said Timothy Turnham, executive director of the Melanoma Research Foundation. "It's a tremendous economic burden."

But patients aren't the only ones paying.

Taxpayers underwrite the cost of prescription drugs provided by Medicare, Medicaid and other public insurance programs.

Spending on prescription drugs last year reached a record-breaking $374 billion, up 13% from 2013, with the largest percentage increase in more than a decade, said Clare Krusing,spokeswoman for America's Health Insurance Plans. Almost half of that increase came from drugs launched in the past two years.

Continued here: Skyrocketing drug prices leave cures out of reach for some patients

You should not have supported Obamacare..

Fuck obamacare, why do you assume I support a system that goes through private sectors? I want universal healthcare.

You will support what ever the far left tells you to support.

"Universal" Healthcare does not exist anywhere..

You're a moron. WHO Universal health coverage

If this is what you are pushing and you believe that the whole world (NWO) should be under a few forcing their shit on everyone else and paying those few to be poisoned at their call you are worse than a "moron".

What UHC is not
There are many things that are not included in the scope of UHC:

• UHC does not mean free coverage for all possible health interventions, regardless of the cost, as no country can provide all services free of charge on a sustainable basis.
• UHC is not just about health financing. It encompasses all components of the health system: health service delivery systems, the health workforce, health facilities and communications networks, health technologies, information systems, quality assurance mechanisms, and governance and legislation.
• UHC is not only about ensuring a minimum package of health services, but also about ensuring a progressive expansion of coverage of health services and financial protection as more resources become available.
• UHC is not only about individual treatment services, but also includes population-based services such as public health campaigns, adding fluoride to water, controlling mosquito breeding grounds, and so on.
• UHC is comprised of much more than just health; taking steps towards UHC means steps towards equity, development priorities, and social inclusion and cohesion.

Disgusting..

Sophisticated drugs are opening the door, scientists say, to an era of "precision medicine."

They're also ushering in an age of astronomical prices.

New cancer drugs are routinely priced at more than $100,000 a year — nearly twice the average household income.

Experimental cholesterol drugs — widely predicted to be approved this summer — could cost $10,000 a year

A drug for a subset of people of cystic fibrosis, a lung disease that kills most patients by their early 40s, commands more than $300,000 a year.

Even with insurance, patients might pay thousands of dollars a month out of pocket.

For many people, care for cancer and other serious diseases is "a doorway to bankruptcy or poverty," said Timothy Turnham, executive director of the Melanoma Research Foundation. "It's a tremendous economic burden."

But patients aren't the only ones paying.

Taxpayers underwrite the cost of prescription drugs provided by Medicare, Medicaid and other public insurance programs.

Spending on prescription drugs last year reached a record-breaking $374 billion, up 13% from 2013, with the largest percentage increase in more than a decade, said Clare Krusing,spokeswoman for America's Health Insurance Plans. Almost half of that increase came from drugs launched in the past two years.

Continued here: Skyrocketing drug prices leave cures out of reach for some patients

You should not have supported Obamacare..

Fuck obamacare, why do you assume I support a system that goes through private sectors? I want universal healthcare.

Who's going to pay for your utopia?

The people wherever they desire to push their shit. Until then they expect us to pay that bill while being their 'slaves'.

 

[Maryland Patriot]

The only right to health care is your right to buy and pay for it.

"Rights" are a human creation and are defined as humans see fit. When it is decided that health care is a right, there is no further argument.

I have to disagree.
abortion was illegal before Roe VS wade. It was decided that it would be illegal. Therefore, according to you theory, there should have been no further argument.
Slavery was decided to be legal and moral at one point, if we look at it based on your response, I should have some slaves running around my property keeping things up. There really was no need for further argument on the subject.
The 2nd amendment says I have the right to own and carry weapons, or at least handguns, since it was originally designed as a way for the citizens to protect themselves from the government should that government become oppressive, and as such it allowed the citizens to form militias that would be equally armed as the government, there should be no discussion when it comes to what I can own, I need to be able to match the power of the government, if the government has it, I also am allowed to have it.

And if health care is a right, then it is equally a right for all citizens, that means, that one person should not get it free while another is responsible for payment. All should either buy their own, or nobody should be required to pay. we dont pay to utilize our rights. The same would go for the 2nd. If I want to exert my rights and carry handguns, but I cant afford to purchase them (hand guns are expensive) then just as the healthcare, those that can afford such things should be responsible for purchasing my handguns too.

By saying that healthcare is a right only means that I cant be turned down when I go to purchase my insurance, or when I go to the ER it does not mean I get it for free. There is no human right that allows others to dig in my wallet to cover their needs.

 

[there4eyeM]

Slavery was legal, and in fact practiced almost universally, until recently in human history. The Bible does not condemn it anywhere, nor even does what we have of the teachings of Jesus. It is because we have changed our minds about it that it is condemned by us, by we humans. We created slavery and we ended it.
The Constitution is a human invention. Language is a human invention. Rights are a human invention. There is no other rational fashion to discuss things. Rights are what we agree them to be and what we can actually carry out. I can have the 'right' to have a baby, but in history there are no men my age who have become pregnant.

 

[Maryland Patriot]

Slavery was legal, and in fact practiced almost universally, until recently in human history. The Bible does not condemn it anywhere, nor even does what we have of the teachings of Jesus. It is because we have changed our minds about it that it is condemned by us, by we humans. We created slavery and we ended it.
The Constitution is a human invention. Language is a human invention. Rights are a human invention. There is no other rational fashion to discuss things. Rights are what we agree them to be and what we can actually carry out. I can have the 'right' to have a baby, but in history there are no men my age who have become pregnant.

I agree, However the fact that something is a right does not mean it is going to be free, or that someone else has to pay for me to have that right.
I have a right to eat, I do not have the right to go in to the store and walk out without paying for the food in my cart. I have a right to own a home in any neighborhood I want, That right does not mean that if I want to live in a neighborhood with the multi-million dollar homes, but my part time McDonalds job wont cover an 8000.00 a month payment,Someone else is responsible for paying.
I have the right to own a car, yet if I cant afford it, nobody is responsible for buying it for me.
Clothing are not only a right, but required by law that I wear them in public (in my case, this saves you, not me) however, if I cant afford to buy clothing, that right and legal obligation does not mean I get it for free at your expense.
Rights do not mean free if I cant afford.

Oh, and I will remember you in my prayers, who knows, with a little faith, you might just be able to carry that baby full term. although, Im trying to picture the giving birth part, kidney stone was bad enough, I cant even imagine popping a 6 pound baby out of my dick.

 

[FA_Q2]

Slavery was legal, and in fact practiced almost universally, until recently in human history. The Bible does not condemn it anywhere, nor even does what we have of the teachings of Jesus. It is because we have changed our minds about it that it is condemned by us, by we humans. We created slavery and we ended it.
The Constitution is a human invention. Language is a human invention. Rights are a human invention. There is no other rational fashion to discuss things. Rights are what we agree them to be and what we can actually carry out. I can have the 'right' to have a baby, but in history there are no men my age who have become pregnant.

Just because we invented language does not mean that the existence of a rock is dependent on us. The same is true for rights. Rights are, as the concept crated in the constitution, the label placed on things that are intrinsic to our very existence. They are many and the constitution simply outlines some of them that are protected because the government should not infringe upon them.

 

[Dschrute3]

Oh silly Sheeple. There's no money in cures. The real money's in treatment. Surprised most haven't figured the game out yet.

 

[there4eyeM]

Where was the wrong of slavery when it was considered alright? Where today is the right to health care in the U.S. when it is already considered so elsewhere?
We may not want the responsibility, but it is humans and language that invent and evolve ideas.

 

[Doc1]

My Epi-pen without insurance is 600 bucks.

 

[Iceweasel]

The only right to health care is your right to buy and pay for it.

"Rights" are a human creation and are defined as humans see fit. When it is decided that health care is a right, there is no further argument.

Thanks for defining tyranny. Once you have what you want it's written in stone, otherwise it must be changed. Hypocritical and arrogant.

Anything that requires somebody else to pay for it is not a right no matter how badly you mislabel it.

 

[there4eyeM]

There is no dealing with the reading/grammar challenged. "Rights" are a human creation and are defined as humans see fit. What possible interpretation of tyranny is that?

 

[FA_Q2]

There is no dealing with the reading/grammar challenged. "Rights" are a human creation and are defined as humans see fit. What possible interpretation of tyranny is that?

understand the concept of rights in general.

 

[there4eyeM]

If we are speaking of faith, that is something else.

 

[Andylusion]

This picture is entirely false.

I'm not a big fan of patents, but I don't connect patents, to capitalism, because capitalism is the means of production and distribution.

Patenting, is socialism, believe it or not. Go back and look at the history of patents. I did a podcast on this. They were used by government..... (socialism), to control the markets for the benefit of the public.

Saying you are against patents, is essentially a vote for capitalism.

Beyond that, the polio vaccine is a lessen in Capitalism. The vaccine was developed by a privately run and owned hospital. The method of distribution of the vaccine was capitalism. The reason doctors got the vaccine, was that they sold it to patients for a profit. And companies created and sold the vaccine at a profit.

Everything about eliminating polio, was capitalist based.

And today, Polio is coming back, and we have fewer companies, and fewer doctors than since the 1950, to make and give vaccines.

Social Democracy is why these long eradicated illnesses are coming back.

 

[Andylusion]

Slavery was legal, and in fact practiced almost universally, until recently in human history. The Bible does not condemn it anywhere, nor even does what we have of the teachings of Jesus. It is because we have changed our minds about it that it is condemned by us, by we humans. We created slavery and we ended it.
The Constitution is a human invention. Language is a human invention. Rights are a human invention. There is no other rational fashion to discuss things. Rights are what we agree them to be and what we can actually carry out. I can have the 'right' to have a baby, but in history there are no men my age who have become pregnant.

The point though, is that if the only reason something is a 'right', is only because we decided it was..... then logically we can just as easily decide it isn't.

The authority of the law is at the level of people who decided it was the law.

You can't create a law, that has more authority to it, than you the creator of it, has to give.

This idea that if we make a rule, that now the rule some magic authority, that now we who made the rule are unable to ever change it.... you are crazy.

Saying that Health care is a "right", because you decided it was, doesn't mean anything. We can still debate it, rejected it, and eliminate it. That "right" only exists if we all agree it does.

Well we don't. Sucks to be you. That's how democracy works.

See what you want, is a King. A King that can say "yeah health care is a right", and because the King as more authority than the people, then we can't change it.

Sorry. Not happening. Left-wingers are all about authoritarianism. You claim to be for the people, but really you want to dictate to the people.

"We say this is a right, and now you can't debate it!"

Sorry, screw you. You are not a dictatorship, and we don't care you think we can't debate it. You are wrong. Thanks for playing. Have a nice day.

 

[there4eyeM]

Post #130 shows lack of understanding of the post it cites, #123. Again, projection onto another of what one wishes to oppose invalidates the argument.
Rights are entirely subjective. Humans created them, and humans can debate and modify them as they will.