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12. So insurance industry patients can negotiate better prices. So people

Thu Sep 19, 2019, 08:22 PM

Sep 2019

with private drug insurance get good prices. And they are better off. Talk about an picking winners and losers. More like picking living and diers.

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Price of insulin has skyrocketed in the US, even though nothing about it has changed [View all] ck4829 Sep 2019 OP

Our beautiful Free Market at work TheRealNorth Sep 2019 #2

Are the insurance companies paying the outragious prices too? Or are applegrove Sep 2019 #4

Both. ooky Sep 2019 #9

So insurance industry patients can negotiate better prices. So people applegrove Sep 2019 #12

Oh that just makes me want to weep. I'm not saying insurance companies applegrove Sep 2019 #14

The tariffs are the change FakeNoose Sep 2019 #5

The price of insulin was stupidly high before the tariffs. Vinca Sep 2019 #7

But ... but ... but ... FakeNoose Sep 2019 #16

legalized extortion Skittles Sep 2019 #6

Been observing this for 20 years. catrose Sep 2019 #8

26 years for me. n/t ooky Sep 2019 #10

Capitalism doesn't work for some things Johnny2X2X Sep 2019 #17