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Answered practically in the first two paragraph of the article:

Despite the furor, drug companies continue to charge exorbitant prices in America. Why?

THE SIMPLE ANSWER IS BECAUSE THEY CAN

There's no quick fix to the insatiable greed on all the parties involved. Profit over people's well-being.

I have never understood for profit medicine. There is a very fine moral line between, selling a blue pill that gives someone a "fun time" and selling cocaine for the same resin? Drug companies are making dugs and machines to "extend life" to drain the saving of the elderly. I've seen who could not pay for a "live saving" drug, give away everything they own so they can go on medicaid to be "saved".

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