'Caravan of Americans' cross into Canada to get affordable insulin
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As a type one diabetic, this is something I deal with. It is exactly as bad as it sounds.
I had to ration my insulin for three goddamn months because they kept "having clerical errors" getting me my insulin. I had to bum samples off of my endocrinologist to survive because they wanted to stretch me as thin as they could.
Really makes me feel like this entire company would just rather me drop dead so they don't have to pay for it anymore.
Oh my fuck that sounds like torture/existential nightmare.
Mylan CEO Heather Bresch says caps on drug price increases won’t..
Fallout from sixfold price hikes on the EpiPen allergic reaction treatment showed “the pricing model has got to change,” Bresch said, but offered few specifics as to how. Any response to Trump’s comments now would be “premature,” she said.
Pharmaceutical executives have increasingly begun to respond to pricing concerns. Allergan Plc and Novo Nordisk pledged last fall to keep price increases below 10% a year. Johnson & Johnson said this week it would issue reports about aggregate drug price increases.
But Bresch -- speaking at the J.P. Morgan health care conference in San Francisco, Ca. -- said keeping increases below the 10% benchmark wasn’t “the answer,” or that there was any one solution.
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Pharmaceutical executives often say free-market competition is the solution to drug pricing concerns, but it was Mylan’s near-monopolistic EpiPen market share that experts say enabled its sizable price hikes.
Bresch defended her abusive monopoly in 2016 before bowing to pressure and acknowledging things had to change while resisting that change being a limit to their prices, the exact abuse of their monopoly they'd gotten strung up for.
Most are smart enough not to actually say "free market but actually crony-based monopoly" out loud. They often express the sentiment with lobbying dollars instead.
There isn't just class warfare in the United States, there's all out class genocide.
and the lower classes keep supporting it too. Some kind of universal medical coverage should not be controversial, and if you phrase the question right, it isn't, but the gop make everything worse and everything scary and people vote for them because they say they will make the scary stuff go away.
I love how america is basically a 3rd world country now.
The US side of thing is way more of a "free market" type situation than modern countries where prices are either negotiated by the state (and the immense leverage that comes with it) or outright imposed by the state.
You can't possibly imply that the US system doesn't work because it's not enough of a free market.
Whether or not the system works is a separate issue. Pharmaceuticals are not a free market, this is not a point you can argue.
Free market as a concept is a spectrum, not a binary state.
The US generics market is a lot less free than in many places around the world, due to stronger patent protections, more stringent requirements for marketing generics, and well-intentioned programmes by the FDA that end up getting abused.
That's because there's only one cure for being retarded. and I don't mean that as the insult. I mean that there's a very severe socialisation and education problem in America, that leaves a vast subset of the population witless, socially inept and unable to tell when they're fucking themselves over. That one cure is education and a good social security safety net. Both things got gutted under Reagan and both are things present day republicans always spin as evil.
It's why when I refer to certain Americans as retarded, I don't solely mean it as an insult. I mean there's a cultural disease going on where people are left dumb and incapable of looking after themselves, as they get stuck in a fantasy or delusion that also leaves them stressed and angsted out beyond belief. Then their constant rage suddenly starts making sense. Imagine waking up every day in a constant state of defensive fear and confusion.
There's definitely something wrong in America and it is the lower classes. I just want to say that antagonising and ostracising them won't ever fix it. Ostracizing the elite manipulating the poor will work. it'll work wonders. but it won't work for mom and pop trump supporters. It'll only make things worse for them and everyone else.
Its more the party of intellectual laziness. Everything has a simple solution, there are no complex problems, your side always wins, they don't ask for money, just check a box once every year, they'll handle everything. Its why corporate law is never discussed on the party platform even though I'd safely say most americans support giving corporations the heaviest stick we can find.
The drug companies in the U.S.A are at this point a state sponsored cartel. There's nothing free about how they operate.
They've only been constantly pushing for other countries to pay what the US pays. Those other countries have responded with a, "fuck off".
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