>If we wanted a system that's more equitable, we could create a law that sets the maximum price for medicine in the US at some multiple of what's charged abroad.

Should people in third world countries being excluded from the chance of receiving lifesaving drugs just because they happen to live in a place that isn't as economically successful as the US? Maybe I could be convinced if you pegged the prices to some measure of local purchasing power, but almost any proposal that amounts to poor people not being able to afford medical care in the name of capitalism is verging on immoral in my opinion.

EDIT: It is disappointing that I get downvoted on HN for basically stating the controversial opinion that "people shouldn't die from being poor".