Oh, is that why it's twice as expensive in the US than it is in Canada or Europe or pretty much any other country in the world?
Nothing to do with our pharma companies being allowed to have a stranglehold on politicians on the basis of being "private enterprises", giving them free reign to hyperinflate their domestic prices while selling for pennies abroad to suppress foreign pharma industries?
giving them free reign to hyperinflate their domestic prices while selling for pennies abroad to suppress foreign pharma industries?
This only works with government monopoly protections. Blocking competitors (through bullshit IP laws) blocking imports (in the name of safety of course) and all other sorts of fuckery.
The power government has over the economy is precisely why lobbying is such a ridiculously profitable endeavor and it will continue to be until we restore the power of government to a minimal state or eliminate it entirely.
What’s that you say? Products where the government enforces a monopoly of production AND regulates their distribution are expensive?
Color me shocked.
Oh, is that why it's twice as expensive in the US than it is in Canada or Europe or pretty much any other country in the world?
Nothing to do with our pharma companies being allowed to have a stranglehold on politicians on the basis of being "private enterprises", giving them free reign to hyperinflate their domestic prices while selling for pennies abroad to suppress foreign pharma industries?
This only works with government monopoly protections. Blocking competitors (through bullshit IP laws) blocking imports (in the name of safety of course) and all other sorts of fuckery.
The power government has over the economy is precisely why lobbying is such a ridiculously profitable endeavor and it will continue to be until we restore the power of government to a minimal state or eliminate it entirely.
https://www.opensecrets.org/news/2009/06/lobbying-is-a-lucrative-invest/
This ALL goes back to the Fed.
That's when America truly died.