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Stuart G

(38,436 posts) Wed Mar 30, 2016, 04:36 AM Mar 2016

Pharmaceutical company hiked price on aid in dying drug

http://ww2.kqed.org/stateofhealth/2016/03/22/pharmaceutical-companies-hiked-price-on-aid-in-dying-drug/

When California’s aid-in-dying law takes effect this June, terminally ill patients who decide to end their lives could be faced with a hefty bill for the lethal medication. It retails for more than $3,000.

Valeant Pharmaceuticals, the company that makes the drug most commonly used in physician-assisted suicide, doubled the drug’s price last year, one month after California lawmakers proposed legalizing the practice.

“It’s just pharmaceutical company greed,” said David Grube, a family doctor in Oregon, where physician-assisted death has been legal for 20 years.
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Greed, that is all there is about this story.

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Pharmaceutical company hiked price on aid in dying drug (Original Post) Stuart G Mar 2016 OP

Just tell em, I'll pay next week...... jdadd Mar 2016 #1

Is this all about greed? Perhaps skepticscott Mar 2016 #2

squeezing the last blood out of people before they die. nt Javaman Mar 2016 #3

WELL SAID... Stuart G Mar 2016 #4

Isn't there a economic law of diminishing returns? angstlessk Mar 2016 #5

jdadd

(1,314 posts)

1. Just tell em, I'll pay next week......

Reply to Stuart G (Original post)

Wed Mar 30, 2016, 05:40 AM

Mar 2016

skepticscott

(13,029 posts)

2. Is this all about greed? Perhaps

Reply to Stuart G (Original post)

Wed Mar 30, 2016, 06:35 AM

Mar 2016

But I wouldn't dismiss the possibility that the forces that oppose assisted suicide have something to do with it. Same tactics used by the anti-abortion crowd (which is pretty much the same group). If you can't keep the right itself out of law, make it as difficult to exercise the right as possible.