> Am 16 Apr 17  08:07:50 schrob Allen Prunty an Gerhard Strangar zum Thema 
> 
> 
> AP> Because all the people who should be paying for plans to help
offset the 
> AP> cost get free care people like me have seen their medical plans raised 
> AP> to absorb the cost.  A bottle of insulin that once cost $12.99 at 
> AP> Wal-Mart pre-Obama now costs $500+ (Seriously I have had this problem) 
> AP> and Wal-Mart once rebranded Novolin and sold it for $12.99 as their 
> AP> Reli-On brand.
> 
> I doubt that medicine prices went up that much due to the ACA, it's
probably
> some patents expiring and they need to make sure to make everybody
change to
> some new stuff before someone starts producing the one with the expired
patents
> for 1/10 of the price.

Obamacare was probably part of it, but as you said most of it was
companies cashing in before their patents expired.  Should also note that
some of those companies wait until their patents are about to expire,
then make some insignificant change to the formulation and get a new
patent for essentially the same drug.
 
> And it's funny for me that you mention Wal-Mart, in Germany
supermarkets are
> not allowed to sell medicine and to become a pharmacist, you need to
graduate
> at a university.

In the US you're supposed to have a doctoral level medical degree to
practice medicine.  Yet unlicensed cubicle dwellers make medical
decisions affecting patients every day - by deciding whether or not
(usually not) to pay for some procedure or medicine.

Several years ago I had one of my kidneys biopsied.  The insuror
(Tricare/Medicare) denied payment for every single lab test made on the
biopsied tissue.