> Shouldn't that be also in their best interest, instead of just passing the costs along to the patients?
But aren't those cost actually being passed onto the employer via the employees health care plan?
Here is Australia, where we have universal help care, we have a system call PBS and it's role is to define the drugs that get subsidized under that universal help scheme.
To keep those cost down it tries to pick generic versions of these drugs.
When Australia join a free trade agreement with the USA a side affect of joining that agreement was a weakening of the PBS.
We now have a situation where drug companies are able to manipulate the PBS for their gain, coming at the expense of the tax payer:
But aren't those cost actually being passed onto the employer via the employees health care plan?
Here is Australia, where we have universal help care, we have a system call PBS and it's role is to define the drugs that get subsidized under that universal help scheme.
To keep those cost down it tries to pick generic versions of these drugs.
When Australia join a free trade agreement with the USA a side affect of joining that agreement was a weakening of the PBS.
We now have a situation where drug companies are able to manipulate the PBS for their gain, coming at the expense of the tax payer:
https://theconversation.com/the-tricks-companies-use-to-get-...