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<blockquote data-quote="DriveInDriѵeOut" data-source="post: 1182024" data-attributes="member: 44954">The article is not bad but it really only scrapes the surface of the many reasons our healthcare is so high.From the article: &quot;Manufacturers tweak old models and patent the changes as new products, with ever-bigger price tags.&quot;This is a great point.&nbsp; The crooked, backwards patent laws are a huge part of the problem.&nbsp; However, as is the case with many medications, American companies pay BILLIONS in research, and are trying to recoup these expenses (and continue making huge profits to appease wall street).&nbsp; I&#039;m not sure that this guy mentioned in the article going to a foreign country to get a cheaper hip is a realistic solution, because the foreign hospitals and manufacturers paid basically nothing to make these medical innovations possible in the first place.He basically is just cheating the system; not that I can blame him, the prices are way out of a normal person&#039;s reach.&nbsp;&nbsp; Good healthcare is for the most part a privilege of the rich, as it has historically always been.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="DriveInDriѵeOut, post: 1182024, member: 44954"] The article is not bad but it really only scrapes the surface of the many reasons our healthcare is so high. From the article: "[COLOR=#000000][FONT=georgia]Manufacturers tweak old models and patent the changes as new products, with ever-bigger price tags." [/FONT][/COLOR]This is a great point. The crooked, backwards patent laws are a huge part of the problem. However, as is the case with many medications, American companies pay BILLIONS in research, and are trying to recoup these expenses (and continue making huge profits to appease wall street). I'm not sure that this guy mentioned in the article going to a foreign country to get a cheaper hip is a realistic solution, because the foreign hospitals and manufacturers paid basically nothing to make these medical innovations possible in the first place. He basically is just cheating the system; not that I can blame him, the prices are way out of a normal person's reach. Good healthcare is for the most part a privilege of the rich, as it has historically always been. [/QUOTE]

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