FOOD AND GAS PRICES ARE OFF THE ROOF. WELCOME TO BIDEN AMERICA
I THINK INSURANCE IS MANAGED BY SATAN AND MY MEDICAL BILLS WILL BANKRUPT ME SOON
but I don’t want to change anything about this. I think it’s the most superior system and nothing else should be even remotely reformed.
Clown ass country rightfully complains about how everything is expensive and miserable and exploitative but demands that nothing gets changed otherwise companies will retaliate by rising prices artificially anyway
With healthcare, it is usually more along the lines that our drug and healthcare prices are high because they need to be high to recoup research and development costs. The other countries get drugs cheaper because their regulations and price controls means that they aren't paying R&D costs and are just having prices high enough above per unit production costs to still be worth selling the drugs in that country versus not. So the US prices get even higher since only in the US markets could they sell the drugs for enough money to offset these high upfront costs of actually developing the drugs or techniques.
It is bullshit, and even if it were true, there would be better, more sane ways of doing the development than for profit. But that is usually the argument about how the US drastically outspends more per capita than any other nation on healthcare.
All these pharma companies spend way more on advertising than they do on R&D
That’s a parallel argument they also use, generally speaking they believe both and pull out whichever they feel is more relevant to dunk being made on them.