Pharmaceutical company buys drug used to treat life-threatening infections; raises price from $13.50 - Polidicks

[QUOTE=Sobotnik;48744951]The imminent threat of nuclear war and the fact that the second most powerful country on the earth was an insane totalitarian dictatorship probably had something to do with it.[/QUOTE] Propaganda-wise, sure. Fact based and with actual logic? No.

[QUOTE=woolio1;48732635]Wonder if there's a market... Your father could be a success story, pulling himself up by his metaphorical bootstraps to sell an inexpensive, well-designed wheelchair to those who need it, inspired by his own personal struggle to find a good wheelchair. You know, an actually decent capitalist.[/QUOTE] Hell yeah. That's capitalism, not what this douche is doing with the meds.

[QUOTE=Killuah;48745118]Propaganda-wise, sure. Fact based and with actual logic? No.[/QUOTE] That was more or less the feeling at the time. I'd blame as much of it on the Soviet Union and it's painfully long and drawn out legacy as on zealotry on the part of a certain US senator. Remember that international communism had spread rather rapidly in the 1940s and 1950s, and that with the escalation of nuclear weaponry that a lot of people in the United States were terrified of being vaporized.

[QUOTE=Big Dumb American;48742809]"Obamacare" is not universal or nationalized healthcare, despite what Sean Hannity might tell you. It is an insurance mandate with moderate tax breaks and subsidies for lower income families. However it still ultimately enforces reliance on the absurdly expensive privatized healthcare system. So, while it corrected some issues with our current system, it is fundamentally flawed for the fact that it still supports our current system. What I am talking about is true universal government-run healthcare. Healthcare should be available to everybody and anybody who needs it with little more than a manageable co-pay and a fair, sliding income tax. Medical debt should not be a thing that people have to worry about in 2015.[/QUOTE] I want to echo this, even if it's tangential to the conversation at hand. Forcing people to pay for insurance is fucked; the only people it benefits is the insurance. I also want to bitch because I have high end health insurance and I'm having to fight to get a fucking yearly checkup paid for. An insurance company won't foot a $200 doctor's visit. Why am I paying for insurance if they aren't going to cover my [I]preventative[/I] healthcare? And if my insurance is this much of a dick, how fucked over are lower income people with the shittiest of shitty insurance? Our system did suck but this is the tiniest bandaid. It only prolongs the bleeding.

[QUOTE=Protocol7;48745139]I want to echo this, even if it's tangential to the conversation at hand. Forcing people to pay for insurance is fucked; the only people it benefits is the insurance. I also want to bitch because I have high end health insurance and I'm having to fight to get a fucking yearly checkup paid for. An insurance company won't foot a $200 doctor's visit. Why am I paying for insurance if they aren't going to cover my [I]preventative[/I] healthcare? And if my insurance is this much of a dick, how fucked over are lower income people with the shittiest of shitty insurance?[/QUOTE] I used to have the shittiest of shitty you might as well live in a fucking bubble to avoid contact with any sort of germs in fear of getting sick and having to go to the doctor

[QUOTE=EvilMattress;48745155]I used to have the shittiest of shitty you might as well live in a fucking bubble to avoid contact with any sort of germs in fear of getting sick and having to go to the doctor[/QUOTE] Exactly. They don't pay for shit. And now you're forced to somehow pay or lose money into a system that honestly does not give a shit about your well being. Insurance companies are scum.

[QUOTE=EvilMattress;48745155]I used to have the shittiest of shitty you might as well live in a fucking bubble to avoid contact with any sort of germs in fear of getting sick and having to go to the doctor[/QUOTE] Ya but his point is sort of invalid, the shitty of the shittiest insurance plans were considered woefully inadequate under the ACA so theyre being eliminated and supplemented with Medicare assisted plans None of this helps overall because your just shifting costs back to the government to makeup for the slight loss insurance companies took for having to actually payout once and a while

[QUOTE=Protocol7;48745139]I want to echo this, even if it's tangential to the conversation at hand. Forcing people to pay for insurance is fucked; the only people it benefits is the insurance. [/QUOTE] This is not completely right. In Germany we pay ~50% of our loan for insurances and pensions, however the state mandated insurance is requirded to be non-profit. This means in years where they have "too much" money they also adjust the things they pay for.

There's a bunch of articles popping up on Facebook saying the pill is an AIDS pill. What a weird game of telephone.

[QUOTE=hybrid_theory;48746396]There's a bunch of articles popping up on Facebook saying the pill is an AIDS pill. What a weird game of telephone.[/QUOTE] Well its not completely wrong.. [quote]Daraprim, known generically as pyrimethamine, is used mainly to treat toxoplasmosis, a parasite infection that can cause serious or even life-threatening problems for babies born to women who become infected during pregnancy, and also for people with compromised immune systems, like AIDS patients and certain cancer patients.[/quote] Its just used for toxoplasmosis much, much more.