• NKBTN@feddit.uk
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    1 year ago

    Because there’s many more treatments available now? Logically, every time we invent a new cure, we increase healthcare spending

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      1 year ago

      Logically, every time we invent a new cure, we increase healthcare spending

      That doesn’t logically follow at all.

      If costs are supposed to fall over time, the body of medical science should be getting cheaper while the increasingly boutique and obscure treatments make up a smaller portion of the overall pie.

      Instead, we drugs life insulin and adalimumab seeing skyrocketing prices decades after their development and broad adoption.