No, you blame the government for setting up such a system. To not have health care for everyone even though it has been around for decades. You blame the FDA, because the mood drug had to pass its tests not only for the four phases, etc., but it has to show why it is different.
There could be things we don't know. One of the drugs I take is over $800 a year, but I get it for $20. I am sure the insurance company doesn't pay $780.00. Maybe that company makes a profit off Viagra so they can pay for the other. All of the big chains like Wal-Mart, etc. have loss leaders for many products.
I just don't understand why drug companies who can make that $800 to a self pay person, needs to sell it for $400. It just isn't the drug companies' responsibility to treat the needy or fix the medical system. It is their job to 1. Make good and safe drugs, if possible, and 2) make money. It's simply capitalism.
Why should the drug company subsidize the patient. Personally, I have paid for quite a few things for patients, but why don't I pay that $1,000 a month for that patient? I would still turn a profit. But, for the most part, it's not my place, I don't have to, and I'm not going to.
This isn't going to be solved by one of the big three, (providers, insurers or drug companies) making a big change to rescue healthcare. Instead of Congress and the President who, for the most part, know nothing of medicine or the business of medicine, a huge commission should have been devised with nurses, doctors, attorneys, economists, businessmen and women, insurance executives, pharmaceutical representatives and sat down for a year and come up with a doable system. The Lee Iacocas and Ross Perots of the world should be heading this commission along with economists. Of course others as well. But, how does a congress person who has no idea what the reimbursement of Medicaid, Medicare and private insurance is and has to read a 10,000 page document in a matter of a few days going to make a good decision?
