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Related, one of my all time favorite articles: https://www.propublica.org/article/revlimid-price-cancer-celgene-drugs-fda-multiple-myeloma https://www.propublic

Related, one of my all time favorite articles: https://www.propublica.org/article/revlimid-price-cancer-celgene-drugs-fda-multiple-myeloma https://www.propublica.org/article/revlimid-price-cancer-cel...

aaron695 4mo ago
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toomuchtodo 4mo ago
The Price of Remission - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43925396 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43925396 - May 2025 (93 comments)
- indoordin0saur 4mo ago
  This was a good read, thanks for sharing. I feel like the best way to fight this, if I was the government, would be to stop enforcing laws preventing patients and even doctors or hospitals from importing the overpriced pharmaceuticals from overseas generics manufacturers. Like the article points out, each pill costs no more than $0.25 to make. The goal wouldn't necessarily be to get everyone using overseas suppliers but to put downward pressure on the price gougers in the country.
  - toomuchtodo 4mo ago
    Happy to help. The laws you refer to exist to juice pharma industry profits. Same reason it has been so hard to change the law to allow Medicare to negotiate drug prices. The price gouging is by design for line go up. Changing the law will take time (election cycles). If you cannot leave the US for a developed country that won't squeeze to extract from you while you're trying to meet your healthcare needs, importing your drugs that can be imported without US approval is your only path in the short term, or potentially traveling to obtain them and bring them back (roughly two-thirds of the entire U.S. population, ~200M people, live within 100 miles of a U.S. land or coastal border). (not legal advice, i am just an internet rando)
  - rirze 4mo ago
    It's too late for this. Many government regulations and policies can be solved with money and this would be one of those squashable problems. Maybe if Pharma companies didn't get so rich already, this could've been possible.
glst0rm 4mo ago
Thank you, really liked this one.
adityamwagh 4mo ago
This was so hurtful and blood boiling to read. How is stuff like this allowed to happen?
- functionmouse 4mo ago
  lack of disincentives to do this
- CuriouslyC 4mo ago
  The system is broken. Hence Luigi.
eclipticplane 4mo ago
I tried health-tech twice. Opted out both times as there are too many misaligned incentives and useless rent-takers supported by Congress and other entrenched players. At this point maybe the best solution is door to door doctors using AI.

aaron695 4mo ago

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toomuchtodo 4mo ago

The Price of Remission - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43925396 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43925396 - May 2025 (93 comments)

indoordin0saur 4mo ago
This was a good read, thanks for sharing. I feel like the best way to fight this, if I was the government, would be to stop enforcing laws preventing patients and even doctors or hospitals from importing the overpriced pharmaceuticals from overseas generics manufacturers. Like the article points out, each pill costs no more than $0.25 to make. The goal wouldn't necessarily be to get everyone using overseas suppliers but to put downward pressure on the price gougers in the country.
- toomuchtodo 4mo ago
  Happy to help. The laws you refer to exist to juice pharma industry profits. Same reason it has been so hard to change the law to allow Medicare to negotiate drug prices. The price gouging is by design for line go up. Changing the law will take time (election cycles). If you cannot leave the US for a developed country that won't squeeze to extract from you while you're trying to meet your healthcare needs, importing your drugs that can be imported without US approval is your only path in the short term, or potentially traveling to obtain them and bring them back (roughly two-thirds of the entire U.S. population, ~200M people, live within 100 miles of a U.S. land or coastal border). (not legal advice, i am just an internet rando)
- rirze 4mo ago
  It's too late for this. Many government regulations and policies can be solved with money and this would be one of those squashable problems. Maybe if Pharma companies didn't get so rich already, this could've been possible.

glst0rm 4mo ago

Thank you, really liked this one.

adityamwagh 4mo ago

This was so hurtful and blood boiling to read. How is stuff like this allowed to happen?

functionmouse 4mo ago
lack of disincentives to do this
CuriouslyC 4mo ago
The system is broken. Hence Luigi.

eclipticplane 4mo ago

I tried health-tech twice. Opted out both times as there are too many misaligned incentives and useless rent-takers supported by Congress and other entrenched players. At this point maybe the best solution is door to door doctors using AI.