Medical Persuasive Speech

People of the U.S., there is a calamity in the world of medicine that I must inform you about. Pharmaceutical companies have been overcharging the ill for life-saving medicine for years. Many of those with terminal illnesses who have suffered under a bad hand from fate have been unable to afford the medicine they need to survive because of the astronomical prices placed on them by companies. Why? They struggle to pay for basic needs such as food, water, and clothes let alone medicines with their inability to work. And the drug makers in return, earn a huge profit showing little regard about the lives of the patients. For example, Daraprim, a drug that cures toxoplasmosis and important to those with terminal illnesses has recently increased the price of the drug from 13 dollars and 50 cents per pill to 750 dollars per pill when the maker decided to change the price. …show more content…
After all, since they spend so much money on drugs for their terminal illness, how are they supposed to spend money on a medicine to cure an infection that is fatal to them because of that terminal illness? Or, how about Repatha and Praluent, two newly created drugs which fight high cholesterol that cost over $14,000 per year when in reality their value in saving people from heart related issues is around $4,000 per year. So, how do we fix this problem? We fix it by preventing companies from price-gouging the general public through having the government place a law that prevents companies from marking up the price of medicine by over 25% in relation to the production