The wealthy will always be able to afford more than those who aren't wealthy. That's called "reality." Every attempt by political fantasists to try and fake out this reality and create some kind of existential "fairness" - EVERY attempt - has resulted in everybody being equally poor, and nobody being able to afford anything.
The price of most treatments drops with time. Generics come out, along with alternative treatments. I just switched to a new generic that will save me fifty bucks a month. Not much compared to what cancer patients are paying, but fifty bucks is fifty bucks.
A major solution would be to rework the enormously expensive hoops drug companies have to jump through to get permission to sell a device or drug, including alternative medicines and ideas. When it no longer costs hundreds of millions to go through the approval process - whether or not the drug is actually approved in the end - things will get cheaper.
Re: Re: Experimental drugs
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- "Death panel" fears not baseless.