I can afford a $500 pen, I guess. I have to have it. I can afford to pay $500 a month for healthcare, I guess. I can afford $5 a gallon gas, I guess. I can afford $200 a month internet and cable, I guess. I can afford $50,000 for college I guess.And of course......Capitalisms motto....How can I serve you....the company announced they are going to help people who need the pen.....a capitalist response......considering the FDA squashed another, generic pen..........a socialist response, and another pen was recalled, created a short term monopoly for this pen.....
The company is responding by giving out coupons to people who can't afford the price, cutting it by 50% and increasing the number of people who qualify for it....and once the FDA gets off its ass and moves more products through the pipeline of the bureaucratic morass.....then the price will actually come down as more companies make it...
More competition, not government interference is how the quality goes up and the price goes down...just ask your Apple I-phone.....
But will I ever retire?