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Yeah, I feel like it's not even a big secret anymore. It's just that there's so little us peons can do about it, and they know that.
are you trying to imply insulin isn't exactly that?unless it's a vital and essential medecine.
are you trying to imply insulin isn't exactly that?
Perhaps. But I deal in reality and that's just the way the system works. Emotions often cloud jugdement leading man not to see the bigger picture.Life isn't just a statistic. It's not a contest of "which has the higher score", that's an incredibly cold, cynical and inhumane way of looking at the issue. It's a fact that there are people are dying, due to being unable to afford a life saving medicine such as insulin and for them it's absolutely a necessity. I couldn't care less what moraly bankrupt fucking lawyers and corporations have to say about it. That's my stance.
Passed. I'll tell you a secret. The United States government is known to impose higher standards on consumer goods and health care products. You can thank OSHA for some of that. Basically it's like the Trump brand. People are paying for the brand name, not the medicine itself. Generic brands will save granny as well as brand names.None of that developmental cost applies to insulin. It's not expensive by nature, without greedy fucks inflating the cost to insanity.
"In 1916, Nicolae Paulescu developed an aqueous pancreatic extract which, when injected into a diabetic dog, had a normalizing effect on blood sugar levels." It's a hundred year old medicine that is widely used across the world and I'm only aware of US not having their shit together with their clusterfuck of a system. There are plenty of countries that manage to provide affordable insulin and I know some places in US are starting to cap the cost, which is relieving to hear.
Same here. These people are human, they know what diabetes means. Their bottom line shouldn't be worth more than human lives, even if it's clearly prioritized that way.Life isn't just a statistic. It's not a contest of "which has the higher score", that's an incredibly cold, cynical and inhumane way of looking at the issue. It's a fact that there are people are dying, due to being unable to afford a life saving medicine such as insulin and for them it's absolutely a necessity. I couldn't care less what moraly bankrupt fucking lawyers and corporations have to say about it. That's my stance.
As someone in the food supplement mfg industry, yes this is true. There a lot of them aswell you got OSHA, the FDA, then you got the smaller ones like halal and Kosher certifications liability insurance exportatio licenses etc.Passed. I'll tell you a secret. The United States government is known to impose higher standards on consumer goods and health care products. You can thank OSHA for some of that. Basically it's like the Trump brand. People are paying for the brand name, not the medicine itself. Generic brands will save granny as well as brand names.
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Definitely no denying that insurance companies are a major player, if not the major player. It's no secret whatsoever, but of course citizens are largely powerless in the matter. Almost none of the politicians we have to choose from will have the balls to really do anything about it. They get metric fuck tons of "lobbying" money (i.e. bribes) from the medical industry, just so it stays that way. I've heard insurance companies be compared to a sort of mafia protection racket before, and tbh that's not too far from reality.I think the real demon here is the whole "insurance" system in the US. Medicine is priced ridiculously because "if you have insurance it's free". I agree with PP on things that really do require extensive R&D to come up with, like cancer medicine, anti-ageing medicine (if they are ever invented/discovered), and other such treatments for rare and difficult to cure diseases.
But, like Mart said, Insulin is not one of those things. It's produced for cents in countries like india, and you'll never have me believe that US insulin is 100s of times better than a cheaply produced insulin. Bureaucracy leads to safety, high standards, and good products, which leads to faith in bureaucracy which leads to more power to bureaucracy which leads to corruption and greed in bureaucracy which leads to where we are now.
Medicine and healthcare in the US is maybe 5-10% better than it is in the rest of the developed world, but costs 1000%+ more. That ain't right. Especially because it is forced on everyone.
I agree completely, I also think that big pharmacy companies make huge amount of money and profits from pandemics such as the one that's still present. ..
I agree with your take (not a response to the link).