(07-23-2018, 03:58 PM)flsprtsgod Wrote:

(07-23-2018, 02:38 PM)mikesez Wrote: Me, no, but right now the manufacturers decide with no resistance or push back from the buyers.  Somebody has to push back.  
If there was a free, competitive market this wouldn't happen.
But there isn't, not for most prescription drugs.

I guess we just need more government to make the market more free.

You're misstating my point again.
Tell me where you get lost.

1) The government, in all cases, has to punish fraud, protect property rights, and enforce contracts for a market to exist. 
2) Once (1) happens, if there are multiple suppliers, they will compete and set an optimal, market price, and there is nothing left for the government to do but leave things alone.
3) (2) doesn't always happen.  Sometimes there is no competition and therefore no mechanism to set a fair price.  The government either has to break up the suppliers into smaller companies that compete with each other, or do something else to help set a fair price.

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