On that one point you would rest your case? LOL
Are you saying manufacturers shouldn’t be free to develop the price structures as they see fit from nation to nation? Anotherwords you want Nancy Pelosi and Harry Reed to set the prcing, correct?
You touch on the societal factors involved in pricing from one nation to the next, acknowledge why, then seemingly dismiss it out of hand. Do you think Mexico and Costa Rica should pay the same price we do? I doubt you do. So what you come up with is an arguement that if they are going to be charged a lower rate based on their economic standing, we should get the same price break.
On what grounds to you support that, jealousy?
Are you saying manufacturers shouldn’t be free to develop the price structures as they see fit from nation to nation?The only problem with that is the government interferes with the system to protect the drug companies from competition. Now we have a system where Americans subsidize pharmaceuticals for the rest of the world. Not all of these other countries are poor. While blaming Canada is popular they are hardly in need of our charity.
I think the drug companies do a wonderful job at creating breakthrough medicines. Patent protection has its place. But the system is screwed up. Real capitalistic competition would do wonders for the market. And we already give foreign aid to poor countries.