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11. Sure they do...

Wed Aug 24, 2016, 06:18 PM

Aug 2016

Everyone on a high deductible plan will pay those prices until they have spent more than their deductible on health care.

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This chart reveals the inhumanity of US drug prices compared to other countries [View all] Photographer Aug 2016 OP

That chart is meaningless. stopbush Aug 2016 #1

You are very lucky and I am glad for you. Photographer Aug 2016 #2

What good fortune? stopbush Aug 2016 #3

You can point towards objective evidence to support this premise, yes? LanternWaste Aug 2016 #5

I had a standard, not-great UHC insurance plan. stopbush Aug 2016 #7

So, you're not saying the drugs aren't overpriced leftstreet Aug 2016 #9

I'm saying that a chart showing the LIST PRICE of drugs in the USA stopbush Aug 2016 #10

Like doctors and hospitals 1939 Aug 2016 #13

Raw capitalism, what ya gonna do? Rex Aug 2016 #23

48 million people is still a big number. Rex Aug 2016 #18

Ha! No one is getting defensive at ths end. stopbush Aug 2016 #20

This message was self-deleted by its author Rex Aug 2016 #22

You should be as you are defending an indefensible paradigm. Photographer Aug 2016 #31

They make it up by charging those WITH insurance Ruby the Liberal Aug 2016 #14

I take a couple of daily meds. stopbush Aug 2016 #21

It's because the pharma industry needs more regulation Calculating Aug 2016 #4

Nobody in the UK pays these prices VMA131Marine Aug 2016 #6

And neither does anyone in the USA. stopbush Aug 2016 #8

Sure they do... VMA131Marine Aug 2016 #11

This message was self-deleted by its author stopbush Aug 2016 #12

No they dont Kilgore Aug 2016 #30

LOL! Ruby the Liberal Aug 2016 #15

No one said it was free. Straw men don't help your agrument. stopbush Aug 2016 #16

Well Canada is part of Nafta Egnever Aug 2016 #24

They have universal health care? Rex Aug 2016 #25

Of course Egnever Aug 2016 #26

All of the countries on that list do except the US Egnever Aug 2016 #27

All combined in population maybe half the United States. Rex Aug 2016 #28