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Government has a very poor track history of manufacturing products. I am not optimistic about this at all.
by Simulacra 3y ago
Government has a very poor track history of manufacturing products. I am not optimistic about this at all.
- isykt 3y agoIt's good, then, that the non-profit pharmaceutical company called Civica Rx will manufacture the insulin under the brand CalRx.
- henriquez 3y agoCalifornia nonprofits are typically a special breed of corruption.
- refulgentis 3y agoThrowaway quip tripling down on vague aspersions about something good. Sometimes things are good.
- afavour 3y agoI feel like we’re trying very hard to dislike a good thing here
- lazide 3y agoHave you lived in California?
- afavour 3y agoHave you Googled Civica Rx? > Headquarters: Lehi, UT
- lazide 3y agoWhat does that have to do with living in California? And you know they have no track record yet right? They didn’t even exist until 2018! The perennial issue is big promises, total shit delivery, way over budget and late - if ever. Regardless of where the subcontractor lives. They’ve already been talking about the insulin plan for several years. But hey, maybe 2024 is the new promise. Have you heard about our ‘high speed rail’ project, for instance? It isn’t even high speed anymore!
- afavour 3y agoYou didn't say living in California, you said "California non-profits". But sure, keep moving the goalposts if it makes you happy. Why are you even still living there?
- lazide 3y agoNo I didn’t. I asked if you had lived in California. Explicitly. Go ahead, read the comment again.
- afavour 3y agoOh, I see, I assumed you were the OP continuing a conversation. But no, you’re not the OP, you’re someone else that came into the thread to ask a question you yourself admit has nothing to do with the thread. Yeah, I’m done here, later.
- lazide 3y agoAnd how does your lack of experience with California not have anything to do with your claims about California’s gov’t programs effectiveness?
- djur 3y agoGood thing it's a Utah nonprofit, then.
- teaearlgraycold 3y agoFucking got'em
- askiiart 3y agoCould you provide any information on that, rather than just vague remarks? Or more helpfully, information regarding CalRx specifically? If you provided a link showing that some of its leadership had a history of corruption, that would be one thing, but instead we got an unsourced quip about "California nonprofits."
- Retric 3y agoThe US government has a surprisingly good track record when it manufactures stuff internally. Outsourcing that to private contractors is more troubled, but nonprofits tend to work out reasonably well. Comparing to the cost paid per dose of COVID vaccines 30$ insulin is easily achievable.
- l33t7332273 3y agoWhat has the US government manufactured without outsourcing to contractors?
- jupp0r 3y agoSaturn V
- shiroiuma 3y agoGo read some history: that was built by various contractors, such as Rocketdyne that manufactured the engines.
- jupp0r 3y agoThe rocket was not. Of course you will have components built by industry. You can't expect government to mine the iron and mill the steel for every bolt.
- shiroiuma 3y agoThe engines were easily the most complex components of the whole system. They're not like buying some bolts.
- Retric 3y agoExcept it kind of was. Car companies don’t manufacture the most complex components in house either. Those things were custom, but NASA saved a great deal of money going with an existing supplier of giant rocket engines who had already been working in scaling up their designs.
- CharlesW 3y agoAs the parent comment quotes, government will not be manufacturing the insulin.
- diogenes4 3y agoHard to imagine you can do worse than private industry.
- AlexandrB 3y agoI had a hard time even thinking of stuff the government manufactures. Best I came up with is physical currency, passports and other ID, and license plates. All of those are of quite good quality and reasonably priced, so I'd have to disagree.
- jupp0r 3y agoTry nuclear bombs or tanks.
- jppittma 3y agoThen they'll be outcompeted by the free market. We'll soon see how efficient big business is compared to government.