I’ll say it for our righty members.
but...but...we need to pay extra to fund drug development.
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Holy fuck I posted that before watching the video and essentially that’s what the first dude said.
I think like a deplorable
Plus it’s important to note that the gov funded the development of this drug and the gov owns the patents for it.
I'm having audio issues. What is the drug?
I'm having audio issues. What is the drug?
AOC is right. Even rightwingers understand that the US for profit health care system is fundamentally broken. They just don't want to do anything to fix it.
We need single payer. Everything else is details.I think we are stuck with incremental change. Insurers and pharma are enormous industries. Hospitals and clinics probably are more willing to embrace a single payer system, although for sure much of the overhead caused by our system of healthcare will go away. Going to single payer tomorrow may save healthcare costs, but it will leave enormous amounts of people without a job instantly. We ought to know by now that there are myriad ways to affect public perception, and that's all that matters. Deep pockets are more than willing to drive propaganda away from a wholesale change. They already are.
Maybe we should just be allowed to buy medicine from other countries then. Put the companies here out of business. I thought we wanted a global economy, or does that only apply to everything but medicine?
I agree, we should put big pharma out of business. We don't need any more research to produce effective drugs. It's a great way to enforce worldwide population control.
I hope that's sarcasm.
I agree, we should put big pharma out of business. We don't need any more research to produce effective drugs. It's a great way to enforce worldwide population control.
We need single payer. Everything else is details.
Get rid of medicine related patents. Life saving/improving medicine and also life saving devices should not be patentable. If one company chooses to gouge people then another company should be allowed to make a generic and sell it for cheaper. This is what business should be like, allowing healthy competition, instead of monopolies. Especially when it comes to life saving things. They should be accessible to all.
Thankfully it's not as bad here in Canada. Yet. As a side note I really think the government funded healthcare should also cover medicine. Vision and dental while we're at it. We pay more than enough taxes, it shoudl cover everything.
So who is going to invest a billion to not profit from it?
They're not suddenly going to stop making money, they can still charge for it, just not gouge people.
Gouging is done but it appears that people want new meds for $60. I want a new Lambo for the price of an Impala.
Now what?
At a billion or two a pop for a flop cheap isn't happening and that's why I propose a different paradigm because what people think they should have is incompatable with reality and again I'm not talking about things like insulin or an existing drug that goes up a thousand times just because.
Gouging is done but it appears that people want new meds for $60. I want a new Lambo for the price of an Impala.
Now what?
At a billion or two a pop for a flop cheap isn't happening and that's why I propose a different paradigm because what people think they should have is incompatable with reality and again I'm not talking about things like insulin or an existing drug that goes up a thousand times just because.
Maybe we should let other countries R/D and we can have the $60 generics