What's the problem with talking points? Talking is the purpose of an open forum like this one. Let's argue against the points and not against the commenters.
Fair point, I’ve corrected "talking point" to "propaganda" above. Not only does it not make any logical sense, but there is zero evidence that Big Pharma isn't pricing drugs to maximize profitability in every market in which they operate. Drug companies aren’t charities.
Besides, it also invites the immediate and rather fatal rejoinder of, "OK? So how about we... don't do that?"
Any negative response to that must suppose that everyone else would just give up on trying to advance drug R&D if the US stopped unilaterally self-sacrificing to subsidize it for the entire world... and when you lay it out like that, it seems like that must not actually be what's going on in the first place, because why the hell would we be do that, for that reason? So, very probably, we aren't, and further, if we are we should definitely stop.
