...the capitalists, we gotta start policing this stuff...
I'm curious to hear what should be done to prevent situations like this, and would like to see those involved jailed for what is highly likely illegal in some form already.
As a Canadian, who does live under single-payer, I will add that the same problems that allow this to happen also make the public option worse. No matter what your system is, accountability is crucial.
@icedquinn@dushman@djsumdog@gabriel I have no data to back this up, but outside of just typical price gouging for whatever you can get, I suspect a lot of other countries who get drugs from US pharma companies way cheaper than the US gov't has less to do with their negotiating power and more to do with the fact they probably offload the costs those other countries are not paying for, right back onto the USA healthcare system instead.
@icedquinn@djsumdog@dushman@gabriel our Tax system works the same way. Everyone cries about rich billionaires who can lawyer their way out of paying taxes and demand you "tax the rich", but when they do it's still the "working rich" (mere millionaires) who are still paying a large chunk of taxes already.
@poopernova That has nothing to do with my point. All these people keep saying shit like Sony has been screwing up/screwing customers since they launched the playstation in the 90s and its just not true until the last 10 - 15 years