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We could fix this by making it a human right to have access to any healthcare you can afford. That would include the ability to import, buy, own, and use anythi
by RecycledEle 3y ago
We could fix this by making it a human right to have access to any healthcare you can afford. That would include the ability to import, buy, own, and use anything considered healthcare (including prescriptions, durable medical equipment, consumables, and training to use it) in any of the world's 20 largest nations.
This would end the war on drugs as well.
If I could import Novopen 6 insulin pens from overseas, it would change my wife's life. She is disabled after strokes and can not remember when she gave herself insulin. She also can not write it down. Insulin pens that tracked the times and amounts and kinds of insulin would be amazing. Novo Nordisk refuses to sell them in the USA.
Access to generic drugs from overseas would save many American lives, but greed prevents them from being available here.
- EricE 3y agoNot greed - over regulation. There is money to be made on selling generics - it's that none of the entrenched providers have much incentive to do so and barriers for new companies to form and get established are ridiculously high, further disincentivizing new players from entering the market. The FDA has been smacked down pretty hard in a few recent court decisions for overstepping their bounds; maybe we'll see more people start to enter the fray and push back against the entrenched establishment.