On Sat, 9 Feb 2019 07:39:37 -0800 (PST), trader_4
wrote:

On Saturday, February 9, 2019 at 10:15:47 AM UTC-5, Ralph Mowery wrote:
In article ,
says...

If you need a particular drug to survive

That?s never the case.

and only one company can sell it,

And neither is that.

he can charge what ever he wants. "Your money or your life".

There is no such drug.




Check ou the epi-pen (what ever it is spelled). It was not too
expensive, but someone else took overt the company and it went to almost
$ 400 per pen.

My wife has been taking a drug that is only made by one company.
Without the insurance it would be about $ 400 per month. With the
insurance it is about $ 40.

That's a good example of the market actually working. The company
that made the Epipen jacked the price up, because there was no
competition. Competitors were working on generics, the higher price
likely help accelerate it and it didn't take long for a generic
equivalent to show up for $100.

Yeah $100 for a widget that costs about a quarter to make injecting a
drug that has been around for a half a century ... sweet