Have the government step in and say, “if you want to sell your drugs in America, you can only sell them to me.”
Then the government hammers that price down as low as it can go, and buys in bulk. A small rider is added to everyone’s federal taxes - a few dollars at most - to pay for it all, and the drugs are provided for free with any prescription.
It’s called single-payer healthcare, and most any advanced country uses that method to turn a $2,000/mo drug that the end user would pay either directly or through income-reducing insurance, into a $50/mo drug that is paid indirectly through federal taxes at less than 1/100 the cost.
But nooooooo… America can’t do this because “socialism is evil”.
Have the government step in and say, “if you want to sell your drugs in America, you can only sell them to me.”
Then the government hammers that price down as low as it can go, and buys in bulk. A small rider is added to everyone’s federal taxes - a few dollars at most - to pay for it all, and the drugs are provided for free with any prescription.
It’s called single-payer healthcare, and most any advanced country uses that method to turn a $2,000/mo drug that the end user would pay either directly or through income-reducing insurance, into a $50/mo drug that is paid indirectly through federal taxes at less than 1/100 the cost.
But nooooooo… America can’t do this because “socialism is evil”.