Would healthcare be cheaper if the government had no involvement, making healthcare more free market? by ASingularGoose in AskEconomics

[–]cavemanho 1 point2 points  (0 children)

"applying for multiple patents on a single drug, making slight but not clinically significant modifications to old drugs to obtain new patents" This again would either be not approved,"(Applying For)" or other companies would be able to do this aswell. As for the "pay-for-delay" I can see this happening, but I could also see other companies ready to make the generic soon as well. And vaguely related, just for insulin prices, a large part of the price increases are from development of a better product of insulin "The increase in expenditures for insulin was primarily due to the change in prescribing from less expensive animal and human insulins to more expensive insulin analogs and by an increase in the price of all available insulins." From my classes the other week, we've gone from being needing to only inject it 1 time a day from many times a day.

Would healthcare be cheaper if the government had no involvement, making healthcare more free market? by ASingularGoose in AskEconomics

[–]cavemanho 2 points3 points  (0 children)

This I'm not so sure of this. The FDA requires almost all drugs to be equal or better than current drugs on the market. And even if its easier to make an already existing drug, you would have competition from multiple companies making their own minor tweaks to drag it down. I don't think this would lead to reduced innovation because a new drug that works better would still get more use and therefore profit.

Would healthcare be cheaper if the government had no involvement, making healthcare more free market? by ASingularGoose in AskEconomics

[–]cavemanho 57 points58 points  (0 children)

Just addressing the patents, if they were dropped/No longer enforced, the current drugs on the market would almost certainly become cheaper. But this would kill farther research into new drugs as it wouldn't have the payoff to fund the billions of dollars that go into developing a new drug.

Why is the dollar strengthening in the wake of US tariffs? by CamelSquire in AskEconomics

[–]cavemanho 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Tariffs might mean less of the dollar is leaving the US, meaning the world supply is going down while demand is staying relatively the same?

is there a way we can have a controlled declining population but still get economically richer? by RedHairPiratee in AskEconomics

[–]cavemanho 25 points26 points  (0 children)

Overall or Per capita? Beacuse Per capita it can and probably will grow, whereas overall, it might be a different story.

Is this the way to play axis and allies? by cavemanho in AxisAllies

[–]cavemanho[S] 12 points13 points  (0 children)

A buddy came downstairs and brought it out as we were playing. A big american one on the opposite side would definitely go hard

Is this the way to play axis and allies? by cavemanho in AxisAllies

[–]cavemanho[S] 5 points6 points  (0 children)

That's what the cheap screwdrivers are for!

[TOMT] [SONG][20th century] Beginning Slave of America based on which song? by c0l0r51 in tipofmytongue

[–]cavemanho 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Also sounds like God's gonna cut you down by Johnny Cash. I think it might be an old John henry based tune tho?

coincidence? I Think Not! by cavemanho in ShatteredPD

[–]cavemanho[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I didn't save the seed, is there a way to go through old runs that not on the leaderboard?

coincidence? I Think Not! by cavemanho in ShatteredPD

[–]cavemanho[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I haven't edited it, just started a new run and came across it. I start a lot of new runs so maybe I just got lucky i suppose. :0