jjanecka wrote:What I want is $3 penecillin tabs open market. I can get those in India, Russia, and probably Europe.
What drove up costs to begin with was that the FDA began mandating and deeming that common drugs were far too dangerous for the populace because a hanful of individuals abused them. You lower costs on medicine? You want lower premiums? Force the FDA into less regulation of free market good and I gaurantee costs overall will be reduced.
kind of true, but simplistic and limited...
of course you know that when Bush forced seniors (yes, the party of less Gov't FORCED seniors) to buy prescription policies, he also denied negotiations for better pricing for drugs, right?
winners: Big Insurance and Big Pharma
losers: seniors with $xxx amount of prescriptions
Not so sure the GOP will find the way to help citizens either. Certainly not with a rushed effort at glory.