(02-05-2019, 01:04 PM)wrong_box Wrote: One of the biggest problems of the cost of health care is big pharma. Big pharma charges ridiculous prices on many drugs. As mentioned earlier, my wife has two kinds of arthritis and takes a shot once a week. Each shot costs $1k but it only costs a few bucks to make it. They charge that much because they can. I'm all for businesses to make as much as they can, but there comes a point when making a profit becomes fleecing and price gouging . I'm not big on government  putting their fat fingers in business, but big pharma has proved they can't police themselves, and charge ungodly prices to consumers out of pure greed, and therefore, need to be regulated

Well, which is it? You're not for business making all that it can? You're not big on government putting their fingers in business?

It seems that you want to advocate for regulations, and have given valid reasons why, but are too intimidated to do so because we always must think that whatever "free enterprise' does is ok and whatever government does is evil. Always.

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