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(6,409 posts)Obviously. If we didn't have Obamacare, you wouldn't get sick in the first place.
progressoid
(49,969 posts)sarcasmo
(23,968 posts)Submariner
(12,503 posts)pharma costs. Orrin has been big Pharma's bitch for decades, and has been very successful in screwing the sick.
Equinox Moon
(6,344 posts)spooky3
(34,429 posts)Canada's are about the same as Germany, France, etc. We are alone at being #1 on this.
Trump has said publicly that reducing US drug prices is a goal (and health sciences stocks dropped a point or so after he said that). Let's see if he convinces his Republican friends to shift loyalties and at the very least let Medicare and other major entities negotiate drug prices. Other countries have strict price controls--and the pharmaceutical companies are still happy to agree in order to sell there, because they can still make money at these reduced prices despite their PR.
FormerOstrich
(2,700 posts)The costs soared after the laws were changed to allow advertising.
All those prime-time Viagra spots cost $$$
Mosby
(16,297 posts)A month script?