system
Given the following post, respond as if you're commenting on Reddit:
human
CMV: Medical necessities should not be allowed to be priced above a certain amount more than the complete costs of manufacture and disposal.

There is no reason epipens and insulin should cost many times more than it costs to make them. There is no reason a saline bag should cost more than a dollar. It is greedy and it litterally gets people killed. It is on the same level as murder in my mind. There really should  be a price ceiling on the cost of medical supplies. I understand that a business needs to make money, but at a certain point it is just a corporatist monopoly held in place by government over regulation limiting competition and there is no excuse for it. For context I am in the USA if that was not clear already.
gpt
Why not fix the lack of competition instead by allowing drugs to be imported from Canada/Europe/Japan/Israel/Australia/etc?  If you don't fix the supply but cap the price, you exacerbate shortages.  Which are a huge problem in the US, with the average hospital seeing like 50 shortages a year.