Ray From Cleveland
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That is bullshit
Many of these prescriptions cost pennies to make but they charge unlimited prices because they are the only game in town.
But Americans don’t care because insurance picks up most of it
Then we complain because insurance is so high
Rest assured, my friend, that the insurance companies are in cohoots with big pharma's increases in prices since they do materialize a hefty cut when these insurers raise their own rates.
Just remember that with 59 votes in the Senate, control of the House, and Obama in the White House, the Dems backed away from taking on the drug companies and the insurance companies. The insurance companies backed Obamacare because it allowed them to retain their regional monopolies and did not allow Medicare to negotiate drug prices directly with drug companies.
At least Trump's plan would introduce a lot more generics into the drug market, which we know from experience would lower prices.
As I CLEARLY stated in another earlier post, Obama BLEW itwhen he could have made this happen.....Far from defending him, I would allow him some slack since in the early days of his administration he had a few other major problems (like 700,000 new unemployment claims PER MONTH.)
Nonetheless, Obama blew it.......and Trump is BLOWING it.
No, he didn't blow it; at least not when you consider what his real goal was.
HIs real goal was to create as many government dependents as he could. He did so successfully by their own admission. The White House claims that they put over 20 million new dependents on this new government program. So for DumBama, it worked out better than he had hoped for. It had nothing to do with making sure everybody had insurance or cheaper drugs.