When California's aid-in-dying law takes effect this June, terminally ill patients who decide to end their lives could be faced with a hefty bill for the lethal medication. It retails for more than $3,000.
Valeant Pharmaceuticals, the company that makes the drug most commonly used in physician-assisted suicide, doubled the drug's price last year, one month after California lawmakers proposed legalizing the practice.
"It's just pharmaceutical company greed," said David Grube, a family doctor in Oregon, where physician-assisted death has been legal for 20 years.
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ReplyDeleteShame on them.
can't take it with you
ReplyDeleteEver notice the politicians never talk about money and care for our elderly and retiree's?
ReplyDeleteSo only the rich can afford to die painlessly and the rest of us have to suffer.
ReplyDelete"Greed", or maximizing return on investment? Pharmaceuticals are a business (real people, stockholders), not a philanthropy.
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