Death profiteers shamed into taking less profit from desperate people who they have been abusing for decades in the hopes that our feckless politicians won't actually do something to protect people.
this post was submitted on 01 Jan 2024
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It still needs to be made 0$, or some symbolic price. One can't get high with an insulin. It's just a tax on people who were born into needing it to survive. I doubt taxes can't handle it. I don't think anyone can be against it with a proper messaging.
Your comment reminds me of the Charlie Brown commercial where they all keep saying everything should be five cents...
I'm reasonably certain we could afford medications no problem if they were priced at say 150% of overhead or so. Profits could be had without any taxes needing levied to cover it.
Offering taxes as an answer is pretty much begging the med companies to gouge harder, because subsidies have pretty much become a blank check.
We need single payer so fucking bad... The guy that holds the patent wants his cut, the guy that makes the pill wants his cut, the guy that offers the insurance wants his cut, the pharmacy wants it's cut, the docs want their cut... Shit isn't cheaper in foreign countries because the sellers are discounting it, it's cheaper because there's a third as much shenanigans between the supplier and the purchaser.
I pay cash for one of my meds. It's $27 if I just pay for it. It's almost $150 if I go through insurance, and my copay for it is more than the bottle costs if I pay cash... That's clearly indicative of a broken system... Most of the others it's slightly cheaper for me to pay the copay, but my insurer is getting soaked on that deal, and that money comes out of our pockets somehow, somewhere (no, I don't pay cash for those... I'm paying for that fucking insurance... Ya know?)
I don't think anyone can be against it with a proper messaging.
You’d be surprised to find just how many cruel idiots there are.
Or you'd be surprised if there's a way to address cruel idiots and clowns directly. I don't know how. But it would be hell of a campaign, don't ya think? Mr Andrew's Deadly Insuline Circus, in your state, everywhere, shooting Ar-15 in the air wherever we go with a fresh batch of medicine. A welcome dose of madness.