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How do people live with themselves charging 20 times the production cost of an essential medicine?

bhawks 4y ago
They make pills for that :)
yumraj 4y ago
Same way people live with themselves working for an Ad companies that tracks people, and social media companies, and every other kind of business that is considered unethical by vast majority of people - by looking at their bank balance and being in denial about the harm they are causing. One should look at their own employers and see if everything they are doing is ethical. NOTE: just making a point, I don’t condone what these companies are doing
favaq 4y ago
Let's not pretend almost all diabetics didn't get in that situation themselves.
- bhawks 4y ago
  1.4 million people in the us alone would disagree with you. Type 1 diabetes has nothing to do with diet it is an autoimmune disease with genetic and possible environmental antecedents. If you're interested in learning more about type 1 diabetes please check out: https://www.jdrf.org/t1d-resources/about/facts https://www.jdrf.org/t1d-resources/about/facts
  - mhb 4y ago
    "More than 37 million Americans have diabetes (about 1 in 10), and approximately 90-95% of them have type 2 diabetes." https://www.cdc.gov/diabetes/basics/type2.html https://www.cdc.gov/diabetes/basics/type2.html
    - qclibre22 4y ago
      And it's often treatable through diet and vigorous exercise. "A weight loss of ~15 kg, achieved by calorie restriction as part of an intensive management programme, can lead to remission of T2DM in ~80% of patients with obesity and T2DM." [ https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/32690918/ https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/32690918/ ] "A novel HIIT-protocol recruiting lower and upper body muscles efficiently improves insulin sensitivity, VO2max and body composition with intact responses in obesity and type 2 diabetes. " [ https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/36387850/ https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/36387850/ ] The caveat, is of course, "long-term weight loss maintenance is challenging."
- dmreedy 4y ago
  I pray that you never have to encounter the wrong end of a System
qclibre22 4y ago
Liability costs.

They make pills for that :)

Same way people live with themselves working for an Ad companies that tracks people, and social media companies, and every other kind of business that is considered unethical by vast majority of people - by looking at their bank balance and being in denial about the harm they are causing. One should look at their own employers and see if everything they are doing is ethical. NOTE: just making a point, I don’t condone what these companies are doing

favaq 4y ago

Let's not pretend almost all diabetics didn't get in that situation themselves.

bhawks 4y ago
1.4 million people in the us alone would disagree with you. Type 1 diabetes has nothing to do with diet it is an autoimmune disease with genetic and possible environmental antecedents. If you're interested in learning more about type 1 diabetes please check out: https://www.jdrf.org/t1d-resources/about/facts https://www.jdrf.org/t1d-resources/about/facts
- mhb 4y ago
  "More than 37 million Americans have diabetes (about 1 in 10), and approximately 90-95% of them have type 2 diabetes." https://www.cdc.gov/diabetes/basics/type2.html https://www.cdc.gov/diabetes/basics/type2.html
  - qclibre22 4y ago
    And it's often treatable through diet and vigorous exercise. "A weight loss of ~15 kg, achieved by calorie restriction as part of an intensive management programme, can lead to remission of T2DM in ~80% of patients with obesity and T2DM." [ https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/32690918/ https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/32690918/ ] "A novel HIIT-protocol recruiting lower and upper body muscles efficiently improves insulin sensitivity, VO2max and body composition with intact responses in obesity and type 2 diabetes. " [ https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/36387850/ https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/36387850/ ] The caveat, is of course, "long-term weight loss maintenance is challenging."
dmreedy 4y ago
I pray that you never have to encounter the wrong end of a System

qclibre22 4y ago

Liability costs.