$40 drug now $39,000. This is the best health care in the world? Hell no!

[egbertowillies]

Why do we allow our plutocracy to screw us through their bought politicians, media, and lobbyist? We bring this on ourselves by allowing them to use smoke and mirrors to divide us which encourage a willful gullibility. Why would an old drug cost $39,000 where efficacy and research are already known? -- because the crooks can get away with it.

https://egbertowillies.com/2018/06/29/40-drug-39000-health-care/

[NCTraveler]

1. Like promoting the concept that Trump is going to bring us single payer?

"We bring this on ourselves by allowing them to use smoke and mirrors to divide us which encourage a willful gullibility."

What's astounding is the hypocrisy.

[Ohiogal]

2. This is what happens

when you have for-profit health care. And the ones raking in the millions from it will never allow single payer to happen.

[FiveGoodMen]

4. "And the ones raking in the millions from it will never allow single payer to happen."

Frankly, the D's we elected in 2008 weren't too anxious to give us single payer, either!

[Ohiogal]

5. But, in all honesty

I thought they did, it's just that the GOP stamped their feet and objected so much that we had to come up with a compromise, which was Obamacare.

[FiveGoodMen]

7. I remember reports of Max Baucus laughing as he had single-payer advocates thrown out of hearings

He's a D, you know.

Eight years ago, as a once-in-a-generation Democratic Senate supermajority debated health-care reform, Sen. Max Baucus (D-Mont.) kept their focus narrow. As the chairman of the Senate Finance Committee, Baucus was focused on passing a reform bill that moderate Republicans could support. At one point, he had single-payer health-care supporters removed from a hearing; Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.), an advocate for Canada-style universal coverage, set up a meeting to tide them over. But he did not expect much from Baucus.

“[Is he open] to single-payer?” Sanders asked rhetorically. “Not in a million years.”

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/powerpost/wp/2017/09/08/max-baucus-once-a-foe-of-single-payer-health-care-belatedly-endorses-it/?noredirect=on&utm_term=.ce511bc0b211

There was also talk of Obama working behind the scenes to scuttle any single-payer discussion.

[MineralMan]

3. Everyone's Trying to Make Money, Innit?

No clicks. Sorry.

[Vinca]

6. Apparently it costs $33 in Canada. WTF??

https://www.theblot.com/acthar-costs-33-canada-40000-7770932