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elamjetoday at 2:47 AM1 replyview on HN

Can you explain from first principles how the US market gaining MFN pricing does not benefit Americans? Open to changing my mind


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bonsai_spooltoday at 3:41 AM

I think 'MFN' is almost propaganda (not a term that existed before 2016-2020 administration) so let's leave that aside.

Are you claiming that the new website is offering lower prices than patients are paying after their co-pay? That is not the case outside the example I presented; moreover, the way the website is organized, there will be no pressure for prices to remain competitive after the initial media attention dies away.

I agree that a hypothetical case where we were paying lower prices would be better for us—but this remains an unrealized hypothetical. One way for us to pay lower prices would be to allow our government to negotiate prices for Medicare/Medicaid recipients, and that is exactly the thing that has been hampered.

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