It's a step in the right direction, but I doubt it will get through the Senate in it's present form.
An iPhone SE retails for $399. I don't see how that price, even including the price of a monthly or pay-as-you-go cell/data plan, is anywhere near the cost of health care/insurance. A pair of Nike Air Jordans is $190... A Starbucks Pumpkin Spice Latte (Venti size) is $5.25.
Is "iPhone" some sort of class dog-whistle now?
I really love it when people start blaming the poor
I imagine it resonates with the same people who thought "Obamaphones" (generic flip phones) were an outrage. (There was government subsidized phone servce for years, under various administrations.)
See above:
"Let them eat cake."
How about we institute a plan that does an end run around the insurance raptors and forces the Pharma bros to slash their exorbitant costs. Just a thought...
If they're not, they must be cooking the books. There's that red herring of R&D costs, most of which are covered by our taxes for universities. I will give you that their advertising budgets are YOOJ, much greater than R&D. There's a reason drug costs here are astronomically higher than anywhere else; we've elevated greed to the status of a virtue, and there are few laws in place to protect the patient.
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