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It depends on your moral system. Equalizing costs across markets almost certainly reduces the number of people who can be served by a medication.

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I'd be really interested to see these costs averaged (like parent post) but then re-distributed by average income...

Um it also increases the number of Americans who can now access those drugs? So whose healthcare is more important to you?

It decreases the total number of people with access. Like I said: it depends on your moral system.

The people paying the most in healthcare costs should be getting priority to treatments and medicine don’t you think? Isn’t that fair?

If you are getting cheap healthcare because these people are basically subsidizing it for you, and they’re not even getting anything, then you’re the leech.

These people laughing at Americans having to go bankrupt to afford $1000 medicine that they only have to pay $10 for in their country: fuck em. How I wish we could distribute the costs evenly…

Depends on your moral system.

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