Jennifer, in her recent blog, states that the government should speed up its process of reforming health care due to the high costs of medication. She specifically talks about a new rare cancer fighting drug called Fotolyn, which costs thirty thousand per month of treatment. She declares that companies are charging way too much for these new drugs and that “Everyone deserves the right to benefit from new medicines discovered, because it shouldn't have to depend on how much money you have, just to live”. As Jennifer posits, “So why is it okay to charge so much for medicine?” she fails to realize that the company made a “significant investment to develop the first approved drug for this type of cancer”(Pollack,NewYorkTimes). In her own blog she states, “Although the drug is successful in decreasing the size of tumors among patients, the results are not permanent. Also, the drug has only been shown to increase the longevity of patients by a few months”. Is sixty thousand dollars worth a mere two months? I do agree with Jennifer that the government should speed up its process on the health care issue, but if we do achieve universal health care, I would hope that our taxpayer money isn’t going to be invested into something that will most likely fail.