Profiting From the Sick is Shameful

From L.A. Times, by David Lazarus

Drug companies will charge as much as they can get away with for medications that are necessary to ensure a person’s well-being or, in some cases, to keep them alive. No one would begrudge these companies a reasonable profit. That’s how it works in other countries. Exploiting the sick, however, is sad and shameful and a reflection of deeply screwed-up national values. We can reduce healthcare costs. But not as long as we regard some of the most vulnerable members of society as profit centers.

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Published December 5th, 2014

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