I was sure we’d had a thread on this topic…but I’ve come across iterations of the story on so many other sites, I’m probably confused.
One particular site (non financial) had all the usual blather…and, since the site seems to attract folk from overseas…multiple examples of the much lower cost in places such as Australia, Bulgaria, Norway. All places with universal access to medical care, a third party payor system (but not necessarily fully taxpayer funded) and some scheme whereby there’s a degree of government negotiation and control over pricing…which the US doesn’t have.
For all that the general opinions seemed to be that this was an outrageous state of affairs, when I pointed out that overseas governments are helped a bit in their ability to strong-arm these price cuts by the fact that the pharma companies can transfer any shortfalls in desired profits to the US market, and then asked how much extra these lucky individuals would be prepared to pay to give us poor sods a break, no one answered. So I guess the notion that, one person’s Good Deal is another’s rip-off doesn’t hold water when the person with the Good Deal can make a decision 