Socialized medicine strikes again

[Tranquillus in Exile]

Ministers [in the UK] are preparing to use new powers to impose price caps on medicines after drug firms began pushing up prices in the face of a possible no-deal Brexit.

Officials have drawn up plans to use price-setting powers for the first time after they were brought into law in 2017. Ministers said they were acting after some suppliers "increased their prices to what appear to be unwarranted levels."

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/politics...s-onmedicines/


NHS prescriptions cost a small, fixed amount to most patients, but are free of charge to over 60s and some others.

[Controlled Opposition]

Hello, Tranquillus; We, in the United States, need to reign in our own pharmaceutical corporate crooks. Here, I dare say, most of our television commercials are for prescription drugs. The ads are "DTC;" Direct To Consumer" advertising. They want one to go to his or her primary care physicians and ask for specific prescription drugs.

The sheer amount of dollars that Big-Pharma spends on commercial advertising means that, in large part, they own the media.