>>>So something's wrong in the case of the US health industry. The market doesn't work - there seems to be a supply side dictatorship of some kind, or extortion, call it what you want. The outrageous pricing persists, and I can't find a plausible explanation for it.
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>>First of all, quality comparison really is difficult in medicine.
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>I know, which is why I didn't use any example fresher than seven years. At this distance, any fuscherei would have become obvious.

But the price-leveling effect of shoddy workmanship (spelled with a p in front) will have a hard time to work long term.
Was not meant as a slight of your doctor or similar.


>One of my points - the health market isn't free. For instance, there were two drugs, one costing $30 a month and the other $70, which are now sold as one, containing a composite of the two, at $300. You can read the ingredient list and you see for yourself that they're charging you triple now - and what's your market choice? Go to a different doctor, as long as he's "in the system", i.e. has a contract with your insurance. And your insurance isn't picking up the extra $200 a month, for whichever reason they invent.

Nobody can forbid you to cut the pills in half and add those two together.
As my father has to take a not too small roster of pills each day, I am used to discussing
each pill, dosage and possible side effects with each specialist and his house doctor
and then see to it that the manual effort of cutting and preparing also takes place.

If I prepare myself for the talk with the doctors (read through the spec sheet,
think it through myself and always have up-to-date docs, prescription history and lab results at hand)
almost every doctor was helpful in finding the minimum dosage where applicable.
So I'd guess I would have landed with two half pills IAC ;-)
Or were the 2 "single drug" versions taken off the market ? If so, all hail generica...

regards

thomas