a kidney transplant.
It's true a kidney transplant in the US costs about $600,000 or more. But in Canada and UK it may cost less than $2,000.00. So the argument here is that because the US puts life saving medical care out of reach for its middle class and poor people, it is ethical and socially acceptable to put the actual cure out of reach for the majority of its citizens too. But hay, the sick and suffering US citizen need only pay a bankrupting amount of money once to stay alive. Unlike when they get the disease and transplant where they get to pay huge amounts of money over and over again for the rest of their lives.
It also says:
"The higher prices that the United States pays, their argument goes, is what makes it desirable to keep developing really blockbuster drugs — particularly those that patients won't have to take forever."
So US citizens have to pay really crazy amounts of money to corporations that are subsidized by US citizens while these same corporations pay almost NO TAXES on their huge profits, and whose owners pay practically no taxes on their wealth. US citizens then have to help fund these same corporations' research into making life saving medicine so the world can have life saving medicine. Yet all the while, US citizens get to pay bankrupting amounts of money so they can have the US funded researched and subsidized life saving medicine to stay alive. There is something really corrupt about this system.
And there is something really grotesque about this logic. It's as if the only thing that really matters is that the owners of the corporation make really really huge amounts of money off of sick, suffering and on the threshold of death, US citizens .
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