As a cancer patient, I totally agree with this.

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23. Yes, their national health systems, but also

the reality is that the US, through the enormous prices we pay, supplement those prices.

The USA is Big Pharma's cash cow, and if we paid what other did, it would result in overall upwards price pressure globally, which would be far more equitable.

One of my oral cancer meds is 8K for 14-day supply. That's not as high as a couple others I'll be in for at inevitable relapse. The IV ones are also obscene, but covered differently when administered at oncologist office. Thankfully, I have insurance and there are foundations that help with enormous co-pay over time (based only on having no more income than 500% of poverty level - they don't care about assets.) Ironically, Big Pharma is the major funder of these foundations because if they didn't, many peeps couldn't afford the life-saving drugs that insurance pays the lion's share of. For those without insurance, I think the drug companies offer assistance, but one must be nearly indigent to get help since they have then to cover all the expense and demand people bleed themselves to financial death first.

So obscene.