RE: Martin Shkreli is fascinating
February 22, 2016 at 6:52 pm
(This post was last modified: February 22, 2016 at 6:55 pm by bennyboy.)
He makes so many goddamned good points. Like he says that pharmaceuticals are 20% of health care, with 80% going to doctors and hospitals. Shouldn't a heart sugeon who charges a hundred thousand dollars for a heart bypass ALSO be demonized for excessive greed? Does a doctor really need to own a $10 million dollar home at age 45? How about a hospital that makes many millions of dollars a year by charging people thousands of dollars just for being in a bed overnight?
And here's a question: if prices are too high, how is it that insurance companies make huge huge profits? This must mean that they are giving back on average cents on a dollar for the money people put into the system. So YOU guys are paying for Deraprim, for the $100k bypasses, for those expensive hospital beds, etc. It's a kind of tax, with all the money bubbling up to rich corporations.
Deraprim is really such a tiny percent of the overall healthcare picture, which is corrupt on almost every level, at least in the US. Why is there so little "news" about all that shit, and instead dozens of stories against this one guy, who is relatively small potatoes?
And here's a question: if prices are too high, how is it that insurance companies make huge huge profits? This must mean that they are giving back on average cents on a dollar for the money people put into the system. So YOU guys are paying for Deraprim, for the $100k bypasses, for those expensive hospital beds, etc. It's a kind of tax, with all the money bubbling up to rich corporations.
Deraprim is really such a tiny percent of the overall healthcare picture, which is corrupt on almost every level, at least in the US. Why is there so little "news" about all that shit, and instead dozens of stories against this one guy, who is relatively small potatoes?
