Quote Originally Posted by 300miles View Post
It didn't read like they were blaming the insurance companies, it was simply stating that people without full coverage or high deductible plans have to pay the full price while others on Medicaid do not. The company thinks it can raise prices, simply because it can. It's a free market capitalist health system and it sucks for the people impacted by the price increase... but this is how companies make their profits. You keep looking for someone to blame, while denying that you want the govt to step in and do something about the pricing of their product. That's fine to admit that's what you want, but don't keep pretending you don't want any kind of socialized medicine, yet still want price controls when it impacts you or someone you care about.
But there is the rub. We cant have price controls and socialized medicine because we are basically the ones keeping R&D going for the rest of the world. Drug manufacturers aren't in it to be benevolent, they are in it to make money.

If we price controlled the drugs then drug makers would respond by slashing R&D budgets and laying off all those researchers with alphabets behind there name. That would mean a lot less new drugs and a lot less new knowledge.

The problem with the fantasy that socialism will somehow make the world a better place stems directly from 1. thinking people will do hard work for pennies "just because" and 2. somehow you can force the guy that has a lot of money to give what he has to someone else. Both thoughts are ridiculous.

No one goes to school for 8 - 12 years to make 50K a year and the guy with all the money has enough so that when you pressure him to much he will simply leave for somewhere else.

I dont want our goverment to inact price controls I want them to pressure the Europeans to stop with the price controls.