Ricki Yasha TarrIt's like they aren't even trying to pretend this wasn't written by a pharmaceutical company AI.
Geoff Berner@RickiTarr more Boeing Capitalism
nantucketlit@RickiTarr John Stossel was saying this years ago.
Sparkymike@RickiTarr
We can cure most anything
But what you ought to know
We won't be available
If you don't have the dough
Your pain will be our business
When Money starts to flow
Directly from your bank account
Out to our CEO
Hey!
Kevin Karhan 
@RickiTarr WTF?
Like drug prices are affordable in #Germany and it works better...
How Germany's Universal Health-Care System Works
Germany’s health-care system spends nearly half as much as the United States but still manages to cover 100% of its population through a mix of public and pr...
Patsy@RickiTarr this is some real backwards thinking
Melancholic Mediocrity 
lonely extrovert@RickiTarr what. the actual.
@RickiTarr also: is that from the wsj? 🙄
/home/sour
Jay@sour @RickiTarr “Slavery’s silver lining was that black people were not forced to grow up in those now poor countries that were ransacked due to slavery and colonialism” is sure…something.
Maude Nificentlooking for a job at fox news, right?
some kind of orange shape@RickiTarr Any Sufficiently Advanced Quisling Is Indistinguishable From AI - Arthur C Clarke, probably
Gluteeniton Kaura Palmer@RickiTarr Thanks, Americans!
Thamericans
Lunar Dad@RickiTarr bring back tarring and feathering for authors of garbage like this.
Arcana 
@RickiTarr I don't see why this has to be AI, Martin Shkreli said this like a decade ago
Bird@RickiTarr These headlines always booger me up. The cutting edge medication for my condition is a heart medication developed decades ago and used off-label for what I have.
Itzme2@ObsoleteCipher @RickiTarr May I ask, what is it, and what is it? Thank you
@itzme2 @RickiTarr Essential Tremor & primidone
@ObsoleteCipher @RickiTarr Good to know and thank you.
Pete@RickiTarr Here's the kicker, we're subsidizing the world's healthcare and going bankrupt in the process. Take any drug on the market in the USA and you can buy it for 25% of the price in ANY of the G10 nations.
Patrick Morris Miller@RickiTarr It's like they *want* Cardinal Richelieu's job to be easy.
PirateRo@kentenmakto @RickiTarr or the Countess de Winter…
Mike@RickiTarr I remember when copays would "make you value your treatment," free just wouldn't be appreciated
@Subumbral @RickiTarr I see this from online trolls. It’s amazing to think I have to somehow humble myself for medical procedures to save my life I have to pay for so I could continue providing for the state.
Medicine, like education, choice, food, and shelter should be free. Fuck the copay, fuck being able to appreciate what I got as what? A fucking favor? Fuck anyone saying or even thinking it.
elverkongeI just want to talk with the authors for a few minutes.
Hedgewizard 🐈Quality, uninterrupted discussion time.
Will (old/moving to beige)@RickiTarr AI via Eric Blair?
Greed is Good.
greeeen :nb_verified::verifiedbi::verifiedlesbian:@RickiTarr this article is actually anti american. make them pay for all our drug development, so the rest of the world can have drugs for free.
Justin Derrick@RickiTarr The stupidest part of this is that governments should be funding this high-risk / high reward research, not investors motivated by profits & dividends.
Create research centres connected to universities - and when it results in a discovery, license it for manufacture at $1/dose. Imagine getting $1 for every pill of viagra or any of its derivatives. Use that money to fund pure research. Governments can afford to play the long game.
Adlangx@RickiTarr burn it all down. This health care shit is insane.
Mark Anderson@RickiTarr But the article didn’t start with “Certainly”…
CyberPunkBarMaid
Very Human Robot@RickiTarr
To be fair, there's a real incentive here.
Advanced therapies take a lot of money to develop.
If the profits aren't there for the first ten years before the patent expires, those expensive therapies won't get developed.
Now, do we *need* those therapies? Are they net positive to society? People with a lot of money, think so... But socialized "best bang for the people's buck" systems might not.
In this way, the US is subsidizing the future health of the rest of the world(!)
@StompyRobot They are making billions in profit, they are charging more than they need to, has nothing to do with R&D.
MikkoThat can't be real. Tell me it is not.
Patrick Johanneson 🚀 🇨🇦@RickiTarr Ugh, unchecked capitalism
LexiGirl@RickiTarr thank god for Katie Porter and her whiteboard!
Katie Porter PRESSES pharma CEO on increased US prices of two drugs
@LexiGirl I watch her videos when I need to cheer up sometimes lol
Allan Chow@RickiTarr @LexiGirl her failed run at Senate isn't helping :(
Steve Riggins@grumpasaurus @RickiTarr @LexiGirl sadly this is a case of democrats showing their true colors. Schiff spent millions to boost the republican candidate to bump her out of the race.
Edelruth, PBS Passport HolderWhat point the innovative treatments if we are never going to be able to afford them.
Bluedepth@RickiTarr @[email protected] Medicine for profit is leveraged human suffering. That we allow it is a filthy reflection of our self loathing.
Raymond Russell@RickiTarr
If only the US had a private capitalist health system where competition drove innovation and kept prices down....
If only the US had a private capitalist health system where competition drove innovation and kept prices down....
good grief.
if this (and implied claims) were true … USA would not be ranked 47th for life expectancy, and 50th for infant mortality
etc etc
also e.g. insulin (original patent sold for $1 in 1923)
Health Action International (HAI) in 2023 reported on the cost in many different countries of 1,000 units of insulin – roughly a month’s supply;
“… assessed as the number of days’ wages needed by the lowest paid government worker (or a person earning the minimum wage) to purchase 1000IU (approximately 1 month’s supply)
…The poorest affordability was in Cameroon, Nigeria and Myanmar requiring 26.7, 20.2 and 20.0 days’ wages respectively, to purchase one month’s supply. … from Vietnam (4.7 days’ wages) and Russia (2.5 days’ wages)”
BUT…
With a Federal minimum wage, insulin can cost 7 days’ wages in the USA. (Though in early 2024 there are signs US manufacturers of insulin are acting to reduce price “somewhat”.)
it doesn’t even have to be written by AI - i’ve been re-reading Milton Friedman’s Free To Choose and every page is selective BS (not to mention racist)
Catherine is not complacent@RickiTarr they wouldn’t have lawyers to extend patents and prevent affordable generic versions to come on the market.
CheDN
Ludovic Archivist LagouardetteI find this very funny given that production of insulin has had no major breakthrough in 40 years yet prices in the US are so high people are trying to design ways to make your own insulin injections from home
shane@RickiTarr That had to be human pr-flack written. Even a soulless AI has some shame.
cafkafk@RickiTarr BE THANKFUL MY FUCKING ASS GREY MARKET INSULIN SAVES LIVES
Veirling | #MMIWG #LandBack 
@RickiTarr Tell us you want us broke and dead without saying you want us broke and dead. What fascist rag was this in, Ricki?