[citation][nom]PennyLife[/nom]...or cheaper.Anyway, an unethical business decision is always a bad business decision.[/citation]
i believe its unethical for the pharmacies to charge more than base cost on life saving medication, as in if you have cancer, you shouldn't have to pay ANY more than the cost to produce and distribute the drugs.
but pharmaceuticals have no problem charging 1000-i believe 5000% more than base cost
[citation][nom]back_by_demand[/nom]Surely if Google tells Congress that it has controls in place to stop this, but it is shown that they knew about it, then the crime isn't having illegal adverts...Surely the actual crime is perjury?OK a $500 million fine isn't exactly chump-change but shouldn't there be some jailtime for perjury?[/citation]
you would think so, but no, perjury is only a poor man crime.
[citation][nom]acadia11[/nom]These are pharmacies as I understand unlicensed to sell drugs in the US, but licensed to sell drugs in Canada. Socialist canada subsidizes prescription drugs for it's nation, so , people get them cheaper there. Or rather basically the Canadian government says either give us lower rates or don't sell your drugs here. US citizens are taking advantage of Canada's Universal Healthcare system. If US citizens want to take advantage of Universal healthcare system, they should get their own!!!![/citation]
people in my country are to stupid to realize the benefits of that, and fail to realize that when they realy need their insurance, the insurance company will do everything possible to deny or delay treatment until you are to sick for treatment to be useful.
[citation][nom]Anomalyx[/nom]Yeah, just how well is socialist medicine working out for them? Anyone who has actually followed the issue knows that they've discovered that it's way too friggin expensive! Wait, how can cheaper drugs be more expensive? Gov't pays for it. Where does Gov't get its money? Citizens. Basically it just makes everyone pay for everyone else's drugs, instead of everyone paying for their own. If my fellow Americans weren't so ignorant, we probably would have laughed at the idea of socialist medicine a long time ago, and moved on.[/citation]
god forbid we actually pay for medical research, such as, every government that is able to pays a certain amount to pay off the research cost, than sell the drugs at cost to produce prices. the whole WORLD needs medication, and pharmaceuticals take advantage of that in every way they possibly can.
[citation][nom]back_by_demand[/nom]Shouldn't really call it Socialist, it's just not the traditional American system.Face it, the healthcare system in the USA is not the best in the world.Don't get me wrong, you probably have some of the best and most talented surgeons, researchers and such like but the actual method of delivery is so utterly wrong that is breathtaking.Firstly you get a crowd of people who say Universal Healthcare is wrong on general principal because they don't think they should pay tax dollars to subsidise other peoples healthcare - they should buy a healthcare plan from a greddy HMO instead that will try to palm you off on the cheapest method of treatment, or none at all if it can find a backdoor in the contract to say you are not covered.But isn't Universal Healthcare exactly the same as Defence?You pay tax, the tax pays for the staff and the hardware and that keeps the people of the country safe and protected.There are many other countries that have a better healthcare delivery system, which are let down by inadequate funding or incompetence of personnel, the USA has neither of these problems so the real question isn't why can't the USA have its own Universal Healthcare, the real question is why hasn't it had one since the end of WW2?[/citation]
basiclly because morons believe that people are basiclly good, when in fact, if you think the worst of someone, you are almost always right. you are in your 70's and get cancer, now, you are still treatable, what do you do?
correct answer is, you get just sick enough that treatment would be a waste of money, and go on hospice treatment, a cheaper and more cost effective way.
how is this accomplished?
the people you pay for insurance drag their feet.
people are afraid of government health care because they think they are incompetent. they are, but in every country with universal health care, life saving medicine is given right away, if you have a growth of some kind that isnt life threatening, yea, you wait a week or so to get an ok to remove it, or pay for it yourself. you break a bone, they find cancer, or anything of that nature, you are treated immediately, with paperwork after, and even if it was found unnecessary latter, you aren't charged, unlike insurance we have, where if they decide you failed a clause of some kind, and they payed before hand they charge you in full some times more later on.