Today, nearly one out of every four Americans cannot afford the medications that their doctors

[Uncle Joe]

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[multigraincracker]

1. We just need more Katie Poter.

[Uncle Joe]

2. I like Katie Porter

[spooky3]

5. She's wonderful. Nt

[gratuitous]

9. She looks like someone who should be hosting the neighborhood ladies for Canasta

But she's got a bite that makes sharks shudder.

[Hortensis]

3. The government needs to subsidize more of the development of

specific drugs that people are going to need. The NIH do this, of course, but we need more involvement.

Itm, so far we've fired a couple of new doctors who prescribed very expensive medications when affordable ones that'd probably work fine were available. It's not like we didn't instruct them to put it on the file where they could see it. Of course they didn't miss us, but we didn't miss them either.

[Irish_Dem]

4. A dirty little secret is the the gov't does subsidize a lot of big pharma research.

Big pharma then pretends it pays for all the research itself and uses it as justification to price their drugs high.
The reality is they are making an enormous profit while they are subsidized by you and me.

So the taxpayer gets gouged twice.

Last year I was prescribed a drug that cost $1500 a month at CVS.
With Good RX, I got the price down to $750.
It is a one of kind drug, no substitute and I had to take it for a troublesome GI problem.

After a couple of months the gal at CVS tells me to try Kroger's pharmacy, she says they practically give away their drugs.
I check at Krogers, and with Good RX the same damn drug is $79 a month.
I about fell over.

[Hortensis]

6. One of a kind drug. Yes. I was once rxd a $700 tube of something

I had to wash off my hands promptly because it was toxic. But the drug company provided a coupon for one tube without charge, and mercifully I didn't need another.

We can clean up the pharmaceutical issues as soon as the public wants it done enough to empower Democrats to do it and to clean the giant corruption out their own party. It's not like we don't know of a number of paths that've worked well for our and other nations with different tradeoffs.

[Irish_Dem]

7. Yep, we know how to do it, and we know it can be done.

We just don't seem to live in a country which likes to take care of its citizens.

[Hortensis]

8. Well, I don't blame or identify myself or other Americans who vote for good

government by what very different people, in and out of government, are doing. I'm not proud, though, that sensible people have not been controling the kind of minority who cause serious problems wherever they get enough power. Ffwiw, we've never been in a position where foreign enemies can mindfuck millions of people while they think they're just relaxing.