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Sunriser13

(612 posts)
Fri Sep 2, 2016, 08:42 AM Sep 2016

I have a solution to outrageous RX drug prices

It's really very simple, and I believe it would be something quickly implemented.

Allow no drug to cost a penny more than VIAGRA.

None. Not cancer drugs, not RA drugs, not psych meds, not asthma meds. None. Not blood pressure meds, not epinepherine, not insulin. None. Period.

Access to life-saving and life extending medications should not be an option for only the rich.

Absolutely nothing allowed to be priced higher than Viagra.

Betcha' prices would plummet so fast it would make our heads spin faster than that girl's in 'The Exorcist'.


I'll bring the to the spectator's galley at the House and Senate...

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I have a solution to outrageous RX drug prices (Original Post) Sunriser13 Sep 2016 OP
In that case the price of Viagra will go through the roof TexasTowelie Sep 2016 #1
So freeze the price of Viagra first, Sunriser13 Sep 2016 #2
Normal drug prices: Initech Sep 2016 #3

TexasTowelie

(112,212 posts)
1. In that case the price of Viagra will go through the roof
Fri Sep 2, 2016, 08:44 AM
Sep 2016

and millions of women throughout the country will be very relieved!

Sunriser13

(612 posts)
2. So freeze the price of Viagra first,
Fri Sep 2, 2016, 08:50 AM
Sep 2016

perhaps by tacking it to some war funding bill.

Then follow up with this legislation separately.

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