[FRIAM] do animals psychologize?

[Frank Wimberly]

Sheesh.  I was feeling bad because my wife needs some osteoporosis
medication with a copay of  750/month for 15 months.
Obviously, it could be a lot worse.

Frank

On Sat, Sep 22, 2018 at 9:18 AM Marcus Daniels <marcus at snoutfarm.com> wrote:

> Glen writes:
>
> "I suppose my point is that these numbers, $60k, $51k, $90k seem wrong to
> me in some ... ethical? ... sense. "
>
> If we assume that more and more people will have cancer because people
> will live longer, and other diseases will have good treatments, then
> basically we're talking about billions of people around the world that may
> benefit from these treatments, and say 50-100 million in the US in a few
> decades?   There will be other diseases that benefit from high-priced
> treatments too, but just the big C by itself could break the bank.   It
> doesn't matter if everyone is paying into insurance (directly or
> indirectly) because the costs won't be sustainable.   It seems the pricing
> is aggressive, in the hopes that some insurer will agree to it, but often
> it seems the drug company will agree to a smaller amount.
>
> Would be nice to see open source competitors emerge, as the technology
> emerges to make that affordable.
>
> Marcus
>
>
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