Column: We all want lower drug prices. Why is that so hard to accomplish?

More than a third of Americans say healthcare is the single most important issue going into November’s election.say healthcare is extremely important to winning their vote — and that’s based on a survey taken prior to the COVID-19 pandemic causing about 150,000 deaths and turning everyone’s life upside-down.

Rob Smith, a healthcare analyst with Capital Alpha Partners, called the orders “a way to give the appearance of movement on Trump’s pricing agenda without actually doing anything.” Noting that insulin prices have tripled in recent years, with diabetes disproportionately affecting the Black and Latino communities, he said it makes no sense to avoid acting as quickly as possible to protect financially vulnerable families.Shannan Velayas, a spokeswoman for Pan, responded that “because of COVID-19, we are unable to properly vet this bill for all of its potential issues.”

All other developed countries predicate their healthcare policies on a simple idea: Affordable, accessible healthcare isn’t a privilege, it’s a right. About 30 million Americans have no health insurance — a jaw-dropping statistic for the wealthiest nation on the planet. Millions more are “underinsured,” meaning their coverage is so skimpy they can still be wiped out financially by a serious illness.Republicans and Democrats say they support the idea of universal coverage, by which every man, woman and child would have affordable health insurance. Until we acknowledge that healthcare is a right, however, we’ll never get there.

This could be beneficial for, say, cancer patients receiving expensive chemotherapy in a hospital. For millions of others who pick up drugs at the pharmacy, it would have no effect.

Davidlaz Let Trump’s ass be injected with a truth drug with a full swing.

Davidlaz Republicans? The Democrats controlled both chambers of Congress during the last two years of the GW Bush admin, which brought prescriptions to Medicare recipients, and during the 1st 2 yrs of the Obama tenure. And they fixed it?

Davidlaz Be grateful. Do not always complain. Your Democrat handlers do not even want to support Senator Grassley's lower drug prices. Stop playing stupid politics. GrassleyPress

Davidlaz AND stop drug companies from advertising on TV.

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