Reply #4: Interesting example

[karynnj]

The reason I had said patents was because it prevented any competition - other than from similar, but not the same drugs.

Even without single payer, they could move to regulating the price. It is disgusting that when I use my insurance card, I not only get the benefit of the amount paid by the insurance company, but the total paid by me and the insurance company is much less than what someone without insurance has to pay. (The same with doctors and dentists, who get almost twice as much from uninsured people.)