I am genuinely curious about your position on this because it baffles me. This may be censored by the thought police here since it’s the truth no one wants to face, but what would one expect when a system that has to compensate for MASSIVE costs and losses from being required to take care of tens of millions of foreign nationals who have paid essentially nothing into the system built up and paid into over many decades and generations? I would expect such a system to produce $300 insulin that costs $7 (regardless of whether those numbers are accurate) To me, it makes perfectly rational and logical sense that it would be the inevitable consequence that $7 insulin would cost $300, because that is consequences of reality … also known as basic accounting.

It’s no different than if, e.g., you have a store in some corrupt cartel controlled territory where they extorted your for protection money, which makes you have to increase your prices in order to recover that cost from everyone else’s. No different in terms of accounting, even if you try to absorb some of the costs to not make others suffer as much and you and your family take on even more individual suffering for it. These are all logical and predictable things, seeing the future level predictable, they’re so basic.

You clearly seem to think that it’s somehow not the logical consequence of the system as it is. Why is that? What we are actually facing and what Europe will unfortunately for them soon enough face, is a shift from a kind of preemptive system to a reactionary system, the consequences and costs of immediate gratification drawing down on the reserves built up through delayed gratification and forward thinking; the fable of the grasshopper and the ants. Insulin can only be $7 when all other costs of the system are covered; they are not, so insulin costs $300 instead to make up for the massive losses elsewhere taking care of tens of millions of foreign nationals in the USA who have never paid into the system that is being destroyed by their drawing down the reserves and capacity.

It’s all very clear and logical, and inevitable, regardless of the fact that I don’t like it either. We seem to have a far bigger problem with misunderstanding of the facts and reality though. You want $7 insulin?figure out how to make all the foreign nationals pay up for the system built and paid into over many decades and generations, or at least for the full cost of the services they consume. That is the only way you get $7 insulin, or even cheaper insulin.