I am so proud of myself. I was sitting next to a typical San Francisco matron recently. I got into a conversation with her about the many miracle drugs and surgeries that are saving lives.
I particularly cited Harvoni and its predecessor Sovaldi which cure Hepatitis C.
I mentioned that two of my friends had been cured of Hep C.
This typical San Francisco harridan immediately responded “the price of a lot of drugs are too high, poor people can’t get them.”
I said one of my friends cured of Hep C was a member of Kaiser and is very poor. The harridan replied that Kaiser was only on the West Coast.
I said, that “there was no way to know if life saving drugs would be created and marketed if people like her set the prices.
"Chances are that millions of people (all kinds) would die from her idea of good price setting policy”.
She stopped talking to me. I’m proud that in this mean spirited Democratic city someone got their arguments rebutted.