Big Pharma's likely defeat on 'donut hole' foreshadows treacherous 2019

[Captdon]

As much as I am against a lot of Gov't regulation, with some things I think it is needed. There is no reason our drug costs are so high compared to the rest of the world
INFOGRAPHIC: Prescription Drug Cost Comparison, the U.S. v Abroad
https://internationalliving.com/prescription-drug-cost-comparison-the-u-s-v-abroad/


How Prescription Drug Prices Compare Internationally

https://graphics.wsj.com/table/GlobalDrug_1201

I think drugs that are still patented for whatever period should have to justify the cost and it has to be public. It's a monopoly that the government has the duty to regulate.

Once a drug becomes open to generic, the government should step back.

Humira shouldn't be 80,000 dollars a year.

[Captdon]

Of course the govt is needed in alot of things, people that espouse no govt or govts only for roads and war, I disagree with. The govt is needed to protect the prey from the predators and many other things.

I believe in the constitution but its ludicrous to believe you can take a document written that long ago and define it contextually in the same way today in 2018. I realize there will be those that disagree utterly, I respect that and I wont debate it either because its one of those arguments theres no end.

The Constitution allows for regulating interstate commerce.

In Gibbons v. Ogden, 22 U.S. 1 (1824), the Supreme Court held that intrastate activity could be regulated under the Commerce Clause, provided that the activity is part of a larger interstate commercial scheme. In Swift and Company v. United States, 196 U.S. 375 (1905), the Supreme Court held that Congress had the authority to regulate local commerce, as long as that activity could become part of a continuous “current” of commerce that involved the interstate movement of goods and services.


https://www.law.cornell.edu/wex/commerce_clause

[Peter1469]

I know R&D costs alot but that cost should be shared by all not just the people here in the US

That would help.