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They're really going after the serious criminals right here. This prosecution will definitely help repair our society's belief in the equity of the justice syst

They're really going after the serious criminals right here. This prosecution will definitely help repair our society's belief in the equity of the justice system. </s> I've got to wonder how much time, measured in average human lifetimes, has been killed from patients having to suffer through the medical industry's agency-destroying bureaucratic churn merely to find the correct "provider" bureaucrat-intermediary to approve access to healthcare. Never mind cleaning up the ensuing medical billing shakedown messes.

anigbrowl 2y ago
Has it occurred to you that the ongoing difficulty of obtaining Adderall by more conventional means (eg being prescribed by your personal care physician/specialist and filling your prescription at a drugstore) might be impacted by a startup that was trying to disrupt the market and had tens of millions of dollars to do it with?
- mindslight 2y ago
  I wasn't referring to the Adderall shortages specifically, but rather the general state of the medical system these days. Offices filled with people sitting around with lists of reasons of why they can't actually do anything except put in a request for someone else to call you back eventually and/or give you a mimeographed list of referrals for you to call (who are all booking out months in advance, if they're not out of business or even deceased [0]). Or you can try going to this special urgent care in another city, and make sure you get there in line an hour before they open otherwise they won't see you before they close at the end of the day. I'd imagine this is essentially how living in the Soviet Union must have been. So I'll cheer on anything that attempts to break this symbiotic deadlock created by "providers", "insurers", and regulatory capture. And it's much nicer when that can happen within some of our existing regulations for things like product safety, rather than having to go completely out on a limb to grey-market foreign pharmacies. [0] wish this were hyperbole! alright the "mimeographed" part was, but with the quality of the photocopy it might as well have been in purple.

anigbrowl 2y ago

Has it occurred to you that the ongoing difficulty of obtaining Adderall by more conventional means (eg being prescribed by your personal care physician/specialist and filling your prescription at a drugstore) might be impacted by a startup that was trying to disrupt the market and had tens of millions of dollars to do it with?

mindslight 2y ago
I wasn't referring to the Adderall shortages specifically, but rather the general state of the medical system these days. Offices filled with people sitting around with lists of reasons of why they can't actually do anything except put in a request for someone else to call you back eventually and/or give you a mimeographed list of referrals for you to call (who are all booking out months in advance, if they're not out of business or even deceased [0]). Or you can try going to this special urgent care in another city, and make sure you get there in line an hour before they open otherwise they won't see you before they close at the end of the day. I'd imagine this is essentially how living in the Soviet Union must have been. So I'll cheer on anything that attempts to break this symbiotic deadlock created by "providers", "insurers", and regulatory capture. And it's much nicer when that can happen within some of our existing regulations for things like product safety, rather than having to go completely out on a limb to grey-market foreign pharmacies. [0] wish this were hyperbole! alright the "mimeographed" part was, but with the quality of the photocopy it might as well have been in purple.