(May 2, 2016 at 5:55 am)abaris Wrote:Then the government would have to create and dispense the drug. In America the entire medical community is a for-profit business. Hospitals make money, pharmaceutical companies make money, and insurance companies make money. If they are going to provide this drug, they are going to make money off it.(May 2, 2016 at 1:33 am)SteelCurtain Wrote: Should there be regulation on the price of the drug? To remove as much profit motive as possible?
It's not the price of the drug. It's the incentive to use them. Nobody should profit on someone's wish to die. That doesn't mean their expenses shouldn't been covered. But nothing on top of that.
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