kingofwing said: America is so screwed up, Our government (in the UK) buys drugs so pharmaceutical companies try to undercut each others prices, meaning drugs are cheap and Doctors can’t be bought … It is also illegal to advertise prescription drugs here.
I wrote a big thing that was about average for the amount of witty I can typically manage, but then I lost connection while I was trying to post and I lost the whole post.
But you are right. Â Even though Obamacare did a lot by making sure everyone could get insurance, the costs of pretty much everything in the health care industry are pretty much unregulated and companies can charge pretty much whatever they want for drugs, medical equipment and every kind of medical procedure. Â Obamacare did nothing to address the unregulated health care costs. Â
And now apparently we need to reign in their business practices and policies as well. Â There's no shortage of ways that we're still behind the rest of the world, and some of us are still calling for repealing the only positive steps we've been able to take (Obamacare).
I think there's a book (America's Bitter Pill) that talks about some of this.