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Could always use them as fertiliser
That’s certainly a response you could take to developing a better insulin when people could still buy the old type for much cheaper but something tells me it’s an overreaction.
Burn them with Flammenwerfer and mix their ashes with salt.
I wholeheartedly agree with the message, but my man, this is anything but a generic meme.
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Here’s an interesting paper about that https://waxmanstrategies.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/01/Nonprofit-Pharmaceutical-Companies-White-Paper.pdf
Basically US tax codes make being a non profit pharma company very difficult.
Non profits don’t appeal to investors.
The supply chain is dominated by big pharma.
Non profits still have to pay large fees to the FDA
Medicaid forces a 23.1% rebate on the lowest priced drugs that make it difficult to keep their prices low.
TLDR the Industry is not designed for non profits.
It’s there. Canada.
Feel like you missed an opportunity by not saying “Capitalism Crookbook”.
Gosh, you are right, totally missed that 🤦🏾
Now I know why the US is the biggest porn producer of the world: they get fucked all day long anyway so why not film it?
20 minutes by what, airplane?
I mean with the cost of gas nowadays, it’ll end up the same /s
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Isn’t the catch that the funds for R&D for the advance kind of insulin extraordinarily expensive so that’s why the price is so ridiculously high?
imo that doesn’t justify pricing people out of a drug that they will literally die without. It’s absolutely vile that the price of something essential for people to stay alive isn’t price controlled and is subject to the whims of the manufacturer.
Considering the only reason they exist is so they can profit even more off of it, I don’t give a single fuck about their R&D expenses
They haven’t changed this shit in 20 years. They’re just raking in cash like they’re Disney or something.
Source: my daughter is 20 years old and has been using the same 3 rapid acting insulins the whole time. None of them have changed. ALL of them have gotten more expensive.
Do you know how little of their own money pharma companies spend on R&D? The majority of their budget is for advertising and marketing. Most of their R&D budget is from government grants i.e. taxpayer money. Meaning more often than not you are paying twice for life-saving drugs.
Unless they sell the new insulin at cost, then no, they don’t get to charge more for the existing product.
They always say that they charge more to pay for the risk from R&D, but having people pay more an existing product to finance future R&D is the complete opposite of that.
This is why some stuff should never be handled by private corporations.
That’s big pharma propaganda and not true. Don’t believe their shit.
