[SilasX]

Mostly agree but I think you misrepresent this argument:

>People will try to say it's because of malpractice insurance or because the US invents all the drugs (they don't)

It's not that the US invents all the drugs, but that US customers bear a disproportionate share of the drug development costs because drug makers (whichever country they originate in) can actually charge above marginal price in the US, compared to the monopsonist discount that other countries can secure.