OMD,
My first take on your post is that what your really saying to me is....count your blessings and quit your bitching.
I am well aware that the cost of medical advances is not free, or even cheap for that matter. I can accept that. I mean what choice do I have for myself or my family. If the medication is needed, then it becomes a matter of life and death. One pays what they need to, in order to improve their quality of life and or life expectancy. In many ways, I count my family as fortunate, that we can AFFORD 5% of our monthly income in co-pays, for life sustaining drugs. When I look at the data on consumer cost of Rx drugs, compared to the production cost, one cannot help but question the need for profit margins such as they are. Again, I know I am fortunate to be able to afford the medications, specifically that my husband needs to sustain his life. The BIG issue is more related to those WHO HONESTLY CANNOT AFFORD MEDICATION AND MEDICAL TREATMENT.
I realize that the statistics in that article can be manipulated by many factors. I realize what is not factored into the cost of the actual drug, is the cost of drug development. By the same token that those numbers are manipulated, so are the life expectancy numbers. Lots of factors are simply insignificant when using the law of "averages."
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