>When there are multiple sellers of generic drugs, you're correct. When there is one seller of a non-generic, life saving drug with no alternative, the NHS is going to pay whatever the one seller, which by definition is a monopoly, is going to charge.
This is incorrect. If the price is too high they refuse, depriving the company of all income. This has been done for certain cancer drugs.
Even if they dont refuse their pricing power lets them beat down prices.
>That we cannot keep increasing NHS funding exponentially
It's barely even increasing in line with inflation.
>Some people seem to find that fact hard
They really dont.
>Both parties campaigned for the NHS in the 1940s.
This is provably false. The tories wanted an insurance based system rather than the system we have modeled on the soviet union.
I think Im gonna leave this discussion here. We clearly dont live in the same plane of reality.
This is incorrect. If the price is too high they refuse, depriving the company of all income. This has been done for certain cancer drugs.
Even if they dont refuse their pricing power lets them beat down prices.
>That we cannot keep increasing NHS funding exponentially
It's barely even increasing in line with inflation.
>Some people seem to find that fact hard
They really dont.
>Both parties campaigned for the NHS in the 1940s.
This is provably false. The tories wanted an insurance based system rather than the system we have modeled on the soviet union.
I think Im gonna leave this discussion here. We clearly dont live in the same plane of reality.