• PugJesus@kbin.social
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    1 year ago

    It’s amazing how many Americans think we pay more for having the best medical system in the world, instead of the fact that we pay considerably more for an at-best mediocre system by the standards of the industrialized world.

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        1 year ago

        Miracle drugs like penicillin, insulin, and salbutamol that have saved millions of lives were all discovered/purified outside the US. Still, I expect the US charges more for each of these drugs than the countries that actually developed them.

        The ‘Americans are martyrs’ idea of the silly cost of the US system doesn’t hold water. The pharmaceutical companies are just greedy, and politicians are in their pockets.