I don't know what it should be
But it should be illegal to market drugs directly to citizens instead of doctors & it should be illegal to incentivize doctors pushing drugs onto patients that might not need them
And following the same theme of getting money out of politics, it should be illegal for the pharmaceutical industry to spend money influencing politics.
Keep in mind, more people die each year from Rx drugs than all illegal drugs combined, our private prisons are filled with over 85% of inmates there on direct or indirect drug charges, and the prison industrial complex has contracts with the US government guaranteeing 95%-99% incarceration rates further influencing police to lock people up..
These industries (pharmaceuticals & private prisons) are intimately connected in a way that is detrimental to every American citizen, and indeed, every world citizen because of the global aid clauses inherent in the drug war legislation. Countries won't get aid if they don't accept our bullshit drug policy.
These are things that shouldn't be looked at through a partisan lense, every American citizen should be against private prisons and exorbitant amounts of money influencing politics regardless of their party affiliation.
And yet these same pharmaceutical giants can sell the same medication to our healthcare system for 100x less than it costs the patient in the US system.
The continuation of the private insurance industry is a joke, Obamacare simply compounds the problem when a simple law covering the few good parts of Obamacare could've been drafted as a more palatable and less contentious middle ground.
The whole system is the reason pharmaceutical drugs are so expensive, if a company can charge $100,000 for a course of chemo they will.
It costs the taxpayer approximately €12,000 to treat a cancer patient from start to finish here, that's including hospital stays, all the drugs, etc.
Your pushing the problem onto Pfizer et al when they simply work the system as it stands.
