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TheVipaGTS posted...

Hes ok with that. Go ahead and drain his hard earned tax dollars for that. But dont you dare give the medication to a poor person who is just trying to not die. Thats socialism and the worst thing possible.

I agree the system as a whole needs some fixing but I saw some points in your post and other posts and wanted to address them (I'm not right or wrong either way but I'm interested in some rebuttals):

• No one who actually needs the drug will die due to being unable to afford the drug. They will certainly get the drug regardless if they personally can pay for it or not but yes it is unfortunate they may have to foot a larger bill afterwards in some instances.
• A lot of you are mentioning that Americans are all about profit and looking out only for themselves. Are you aware that a lot of the drugs we have today are because Americans pay so much for our prescriptions? Biotech/pharma companies make investments into attempting to develop these drugs, because they know the ones that are successful will make huge profits in the USA. They can't charge as much in other countries because those countries tend to have intermediary organizations to negotiate lower prices for their citizens, or the citizens of that country can't afford higher prices so it'll be sold for much lower. Basically, the US citizens wind up footing the bill for these drugs so those in less wealthy countries can get the drugs they need.

So for the point I addressed in my 2nd bullet point, are you okay with lower prescription costs but allowing those in developing nations to not receive the drugs they need for cheaper prices? Sure, the "rich corporations" are selfish to an extent of course, but are we not also selfish ourselves for wanting cheaper prescription drugs for Americans if the result is less drug development and higher costs for a lot developing nations?

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