Merck Sues Over Law Empowering Medicare to Negotiate With Drugmakers

[*michaelsean*]

(06-07-2023, 12:16 AM)Dill Wrote: People want more stuff now than in the 40s or 50s? 

Women's equality has advanced, yes: they have careers now, or at least greater economic independence.

--and yet the real income of the lower three quintiles of household income--the vast majority of American families--has flatlined or dropped since 1965, when most families had only one parent working.
https://www.advisorperspectives.com/dshort/updates/2021/10/25/updated-u-s-household-incomes-a-50-year-perspective

Can't buy more stuff if it takes two to earn what one used to earn.

Anyway, this widening wealth gap is also one consequence of the increased portion of their income that Americans have to pay for healthcare costs, drugs being a big chunk of that. And those high costs which keep the real value of working and middle class income flat are redirected upward to keep the real income of the top quintiles rising. Getting women back in the home won't fix that.

Uhh yeah.