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Originally Posted by The Ditch
Health care is a right to people imo, not a commodity, and should be treated as such, which would prevent situations like this.
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It still is a commodity. Currently in Canada we have a patented medication price review board that prevents excessive mark ups. There is no such thing for generic manufacturers. The price limiting factor for those is provincial healthcare is the largest buyers in each province and decide what they will pay, which keeps it low for everyone.
There are no price restrictions say all in the US.
If you eliminate profit from drug manufacturing, you eliminate innovation. It's not as simple as not commoditizing it