Thank you for your post because it capsulizes the wider issue that is at the center of the political debate raging in this country.
I totally agree with you that the chit (as you put it) should be strung up by the balls. (PS: we’re bordering on being thrown off for language , here.)
But, I adamantly disagree with your solution of terminating the profit motive of the free market. Ok, you want to take away the profits of the distributors. So, will you then take away the profits of the insurance companies, and the profits of the drug manufacturers, and the profits of the hospitals and the research facilities, and the doctors.
No doubt, this all sounds pretty good to you. But, you are then left with only one solution, and that is to let the government own everything. But if the government owns everything, you end up back at square 1 again, because I believe it was exactly the government that allowed this company to perpetrate their atrocity on us. It was the government that allowed a critical monopoly to be established. It was the government that snuffed out the free market mechanism of COMPETITION that is very effective at balancing out gross inequities.
The government can do some very good things to promote a good, healthy competitive atmosphere. But the government can also do some very bad things that result in the worst kind of tyranny that you can ever imagine. And many politicians will be absolutely delighted to participate in that tyranny because they can become extremely rich.
We don’t have a free market and we don’t have government that does anything for us. We have what amounts to a mess of a system with lobbyists for corporations in collusion with politicians not being accountable to the sheeple.
Dare I remind you that BCBS was originally intended to be not for profit and for catastrophic care by the Truman administration? I also remind you that we didn’t talk about medical costs in the 50s and 60s much because there was little or no for profit medicine outside of the doctors practice. Hospitals were mostly not for profit. That all changed about 30 years ago and nobody even noticed.
Even with adjustment for huge amounts of inflation medical costs 50 years ago were a fraction of what they are now. Why? Profit, tort, technology (some that isn’t even that useful and just has to be paid for), regulation, administration, more freeloaders, inefficiency, sloppiness and slothfulness to name a few.
We are not solving anything and we will not
“I think the smarmy little chit that is buying up generic rights to drugs and epipens and such then raping people over the prices should be strung up by his balls.”
https://www.mdm.com/2015-top-pharmaceuticals-distributors
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/chat/3462660/posts?page=39#39