Tell me your healthcare system is broken without telling me your healthcare system is broken.
this post was submitted on 03 Apr 2024
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They would rather spend a cool Mil or whatever the contractor over-charged for this instead of a few salaries on people who can argue with pharma over prices. It's a sad state of affairs
Hey! Our health care system is going to be broken soon right away! Go Poilievre!*
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You fucking snake
Bills with 10 digit numbers for the amount due, for anyone else that was confused.
Including 2 digits for cents, for those referencing their dream of 6-figure income
Ugh, medical pricing is so fucked.
The medicine they listed, Lenmeldy, that costs more than $4 million a dose certainly sounds cool, like awe inspiringly cool, but there's no way it's fair price to produce is anywhere close to that high.
Like, tailored gene therapy is not gonna be cheap in labor costs no matter where you are, but at $4 million you're past yearly operating costs per dose.
That type of medicine should just get taken over by the government, since a commercial operation will never be able to set a fair price on a rare and labor intensive treatment.