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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Tanis143" data-source="post: 3711183" data-attributes="member: 43724">Simple solution: make anything to do with health care non-profit. This goes for hospitals, drug manufacturers, orthopedic devices, etc. Also, any patents for the medical field can only be held by a manufacturer. This will get rid of patent trolls who jack up the prices. Setup a price plan for medicine so that it can only be a certain percentage higher than manufacturing costs and that percentage is aggregated by how long its been on the market (i.e. the cost for insulin should be no more than 5% over production cost vs a brand new drug could be 15% to pay off the r/d costs). Of course cosmetic surgery would be excluded from this unless its covered under certain medical conditions (i.e. cosmetic surgery to cover scars from say a dog bite). Capitalism is great when there is competition to keep the prices low. When there is no competition, capitalism fails. When that happens, regulation is needed to protect people from corporate greed. This is simple economics 101. And this is why economics are not a required course for HS anymore.</blockquote>