Look at the first slideshow linked here and understand the reason why big pharma is scared of obamacare.

Look at the first slideshow linked here and understand the reason why big pharma is scared of obamacare. A standardized health care may one day lead to centralized price negotiations on behalf of the whole american people, slashing your prices to european levels.

With lower prices americans may even start going to their doctor earlier and afford treatments that could up the life expectancy...

Originally shared by Avinash Kaushik

Price of healthcare in the world.

Bottom-line? We pay the most for the same stuff. That's not the worst part. This is: We also increasingly burden US citizens with debt related to insane costs (see colors below for Exact same procedures). 

One of many, many examples: Humira costs $2,246 in the US. In Switzerland, a, mildly put, expensive place, it costs $881. 

15 more examples here: http://goo.gl/BzBSd0

Oh, and it is not even that our (sorry, sarcastic) healthcare is causing us to live longer or anything. We are #53 on the list: http://goo.gl/8NJgn9

Yes, our recent healthcare reform will put a band-aid on a bleeding patient. For the sake of our children, we need to do better.

Data source, pages 14 - 17, pdf: http://goo.gl/60BzlW  Many thanks to Thomas Baekdal for sharing this lovely chart.