So dont buy what they are selling you...you could have cheaper drugs but its about share holders is the situation.
I hear you! There certainly could and should be lower prices for "prescription drugs".
I avoid prescription drugs as much as I can and feel bad for those who aren't able to do that.
It IS about profit, but profit isn't the bad guy in the equation. Forcible monopolies are the bad guy, since they create the root causes for outrageous prices.
The best way to reduce prices is to "allow" a free market to exist.
Meaning people are free to produce, buy and sell things without third party restrictive constraints. In the present paradigm, government constraints are there to keep others from being suppliers, to use regulation to create a virtual monopoly. Crony capitalism, using government regulation to funnel money from captured markets to favored protected companies.
What exists today in the legal prescription drug market is NOT a free market, it is a REGULATED market. By design, to forcibly protect profit.
Some people erroneously blame "free markets" for high prices, when the exact opposite is true. It's crony capitalism that doe it,
Crony capitalism / regulated markets, which prevail today are not the same as an actual free market. We aren't "allowed" to have free markets, which is usually why things cost so much.
The regulations in place are usually justified under "safety", but that's a ruse. The real reason is, since government protectionism snuffs out competition, profit doesn't have to be earned thru customer loyalty. When you hold market share because customers have few suppliers to go to, (forcible monopoly) you're using a criminal business model, despite the legal façade. Legalized robbery.
If weed were totally unregulated, not like today's "prohibition lite" legalization, prices would be very much lower.
A LOT lower even than the somewhat reduced prices legalized places see now. The same thing would happen with prescription drugs. You SHOULD be able to buy those kinds of drugs without a prescription, since the prescription itself is ANOTHER barrier and layer that helps to keep prices artificially high.
Bottom line, regulations create and maintain conditions for high prices, since they restrict competition and don't rely on good customer service to create customer loyalty. They rely on a "gun", instead. That's not a good way to treat customers.
Free markets, reward good service providers and allow consumers choices, which create a competitive market among suppliers and lead to lower prices. Regulated markets, reward the protected cronies and reduce consumer choices, keeping prices artificially high.
More freedom is the answer.
