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What is the middle ground between single payer and private insurance?

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02-05-2019, 09:01 PM

(02-05-2019, 08:22 PM)mikesez Wrote:
(02-05-2019, 06:11 PM)flsprtsgod Wrote: Ummmm, do any of you guys know how much it costs to bring a drug to market? It's more than a few bucks a dose.

It's true that it takes a lot of money in a lot of time to bring a drug to market.
And it's true that the per-unit cost has to defray that expense.
But this means that the same drug should get less expensive over time, as more and more of its initial cost has been defrayed.
For instance, what the heck is going on with humalog insulin?

Newer and different innovations in insulin. Profit has been flat for 20 years.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/wonk...471f77f471

If the old still works then why do patients demand it? Because most insured patients dont pay for it, ie there's little price pain for most users.
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