[thinkmcfly]

Goddamn your healthcare system is fucked up.

[strombofulous]

Is it? Isn't this exactly the outcome you'd hope for?

Individual consumers pay basically nothing and companies are still incentivized to innovate and create new medicines

[ceejayoz]

Individual consumers aren’t paying nothing. The cost is just being hidden from them so they don’t flip over the tables.

They pay via premiums - mine went up to $2,792/month this year - or if their employer pays those, via the resulting wage impact.

And, as a result, we spend 2-3x what the rest of the OECD spends on healthcare - public and private spending - with roughly the same health outcomes.

[ceejayoz]

Agreed. Injecting a milliliter of fluid worth as much as a new car makes me twitchy.