On Thu, Dec 31, 2015 at 2:01 PM, Charlie <[email protected]> wrote:
> Okay, just add 1) so couples with more typical incomes like $40,000 have > no hope at all, and 2) this foundation charity for health care is an > attempt to humanize things that only highlights the inhumanity. > That's kind of my point - surely it should be possible for these reporters to find a better case study than this to showcase the effects of pharma-industry price gouging? To their credit, it looks like these reporters did try. They explicitly state in the article that "For many of the poorest Americans, medicines are covered by government programs or financial-assistance funds paid for by drug companies." I suspect that the problem is that to find the true horror stories, you have to look beyond the "middle class" broadly defined; you have to look at disadvantaged and marginalized populations, groups that are too often completely overlooked by WSJ reporters. -raghu.
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