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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsPharmaceutical company hiked price on aid in dying drug
http://ww2.kqed.org/stateofhealth/2016/03/22/pharmaceutical-companies-hiked-price-on-aid-in-dying-drug/When Californias aid-in-dying law takes effect this June, terminally ill patients who decide to end their lives could be faced with a hefty bill for the lethal medication. It retails for more than $3,000.
Valeant Pharmaceuticals, the company that makes the drug most commonly used in physician-assisted suicide, doubled the drugs price last year, one month after California lawmakers proposed legalizing the practice.
Its just pharmaceutical company greed, said David Grube, a family doctor in Oregon, where physician-assisted death has been legal for 20 years.
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Greed, that is all there is about this story.
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Pharmaceutical company hiked price on aid in dying drug (Original Post)
Stuart G
Mar 2016
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jdadd
(1,314 posts)1. Just tell em, I'll pay next week......
skepticscott
(13,029 posts)2. Is this all about greed? Perhaps
But I wouldn't dismiss the possibility that the forces that oppose assisted suicide have something to do with it. Same tactics used by the anti-abortion crowd (which is pretty much the same group). If you can't keep the right itself out of law, make it as difficult to exercise the right as possible.
Javaman
(62,532 posts)3. squeezing the last blood out of people before they die. nt
Stuart G
(38,439 posts)4. WELL SAID...
angstlessk
(11,862 posts)5. Isn't there a economic law of diminishing returns?
I hope pharmaceutical companies go broke because of their disrespect for their customers!