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Pretty cool, but it's a problem with the law and needs to be fixed in law.

by Blahah 5y ago

holstvoogd 5y ago
If you wait for that, all diabetics will be dead probably…
- Pokepokalypse 5y ago
  "Don't worry; we'll make more." - The US food industry
  - cadr 5y ago
    I'm pretty sure they don't make the Type-1's.
adamrezich 5y ago
it was (going to be) but then the new guy reversed the previous guy's decision
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anonbcpolitics 5y ago
Previous guy tried, but the new "Big guy" nixed the EO before it could go into effect. https://www.federalregister.gov/documents/2020/12/23/2020-28483/implementation-of-executive-order-on-access-to-affordable-life-saving-medications https://www.federalregister.gov/documents/2020/12/23/2020-28... Feel free to link any biased news article or Politifact telling me how it wouldn't have mattered or wasn't that effective. That's a lie, it capped the prices, but at least ask yourself if doing nothing is better, or worse, cancelling an action that did something. Then ask why they did it. Just like many other reversals it wasn't for you, it was for Pharma buddies. They say one thing and do another.
throwaway4china 5y ago
Previous guy tried, but the new "Big guy" nixed the EO before it could go into effect. https://www.federalregister.gov/documents/2020/12/23/2020-28 https://www.federalregister.gov/documents/2020/12/23/2020-28... Feel free to link any biased news article or Politifact telling me how it wouldn't have mattered or wasn't that effective. That's a lie, it capped the prices, but at least ask yourself if doing nothing is better, or worse, cancelling an action that did something. Then ask why they did it. Just like many other reversals it wasn't for you, it was for Pharma buddies. They say one thing and do another.
whereshunter 5y ago
Previous guy tried, but the new "Big guy" nixed the EO before it could go into effect. https://www.federalregister.gov/documents/2020/12/23/2020-28 https://www.federalregister.gov/documents/2020/12/23/2020-28... Feel free to link any biased news article or Politifact telling me how it wouldn't have mattered or wasn't that effective. That's a lie, it capped the prices, but at least ask yourself if doing nothing is better, or worse, cancelling an action that did something. Then ask why they did it. Just like many other reversals it wasn't for you, it was for Pharma buddies. They say one thing and do another.
kevin_thibedeau 5y ago
You don't need new laws to deal with corrupt business practices. The fact that cheap off-patent insulin isn't available in the US is clear proof that the pharmaceuticals are all colluding together to maintain high pricing. Otherwise free market forces would take over and someone would sell what the rest of the world gets, siphoning off sales from medical tourists going to Mexico and those who want off of expensive alternatives. Conveniently the FTC looks the other way. The American government in inaction.
- Blahah 5y ago
  I was not suggesting that we need more regulation necessarily. It's a problem of law in that it's entirely made possible (and incentivised) by laws. Patent law and laws governing the development, marketing, distribution, and crucially import of medicines.

Pretty cool, but it's a problem with the law and needs to be fixed in law.

by Blahah 5y ago

Pretty cool, but it's a problem with the law and needs to be fixed in law.

holstvoogd 5y ago

If you wait for that, all diabetics will be dead probably…

Pokepokalypse 5y ago
"Don't worry; we'll make more." - The US food industry
- cadr 5y ago
  I'm pretty sure they don't make the Type-1's.

adamrezich 5y ago

it was (going to be) but then the new guy reversed the previous guy's decision

deleted 5y ago

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anonbcpolitics 5y ago

Previous guy tried, but the new "Big guy" nixed the EO before it could go into effect. https://www.federalregister.gov/documents/2020/12/23/2020-28483/implementation-of-executive-order-on-access-to-affordable-life-saving-medications https://www.federalregister.gov/documents/2020/12/23/2020-28... Feel free to link any biased news article or Politifact telling me how it wouldn't have mattered or wasn't that effective. That's a lie, it capped the prices, but at least ask yourself if doing nothing is better, or worse, cancelling an action that did something. Then ask why they did it. Just like many other reversals it wasn't for you, it was for Pharma buddies. They say one thing and do another.

throwaway4china 5y ago

Previous guy tried, but the new "Big guy" nixed the EO before it could go into effect. https://www.federalregister.gov/documents/2020/12/23/2020-28 https://www.federalregister.gov/documents/2020/12/23/2020-28... Feel free to link any biased news article or Politifact telling me how it wouldn't have mattered or wasn't that effective. That's a lie, it capped the prices, but at least ask yourself if doing nothing is better, or worse, cancelling an action that did something. Then ask why they did it. Just like many other reversals it wasn't for you, it was for Pharma buddies. They say one thing and do another.

whereshunter 5y ago

kevin_thibedeau 5y ago

You don't need new laws to deal with corrupt business practices. The fact that cheap off-patent insulin isn't available in the US is clear proof that the pharmaceuticals are all colluding together to maintain high pricing. Otherwise free market forces would take over and someone would sell what the rest of the world gets, siphoning off sales from medical tourists going to Mexico and those who want off of expensive alternatives. Conveniently the FTC looks the other way. The American government in inaction.

Blahah 5y ago
I was not suggesting that we need more regulation necessarily. It's a problem of law in that it's entirely made possible (and incentivised) by laws. Patent law and laws governing the development, marketing, distribution, and crucially import of medicines.