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[–] 116 points 1 year ago (16 children)

What a fucking joke of a country... It's absurdity beyond satire.

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  • [–] 58 points 1 year ago (6 children)

    I don't want to live here anymore and I'm scared.

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  • [–] 24 points 1 year ago (6 children)

    There was a very very small window that America wasn't a joke, and it ended like 80 years ago.

    People need to understand shit didn't break 5 seconds before they noticed or well never fix it.

    trump just doesn't have the manners and vocab to hide how bad it is.

    If we don't start thinking on a longer timeline, we're fucked

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  • [–] 28 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    The system is designed to keep the working class too busy and tired to think beyond tonight’s dinner, or maybe tomorrow’s.

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  • [–] 12 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    That's our economic system not our healthcare...

    And it's a real thing, resource scarcity as a child changes the timeline you think on. You know how everyone laughed at the people doing the "chase glitch" which was just check/wire fraud and incredibly easy to prosecute?

    They seemed stupid because obviously there was going to be consequences, but resource scarcity means tomorrow's problems aren't real problems yet.

    If you don't know if you'll be alive in aweek, consequences in a month literally don't factor into your thinking. That's why Pay Day loans and credit cards are such big business.

    It is completely normal, it's how our brains are wired, and for 99.999999999% of human existence it was a solid strategy.

    But the wealthy exploit it.

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  • [–] 6 points 1 year ago

    Let's not pretend like these predatory businesses and schemes are naturally occurring either. There was a deliberate and concerted effort to create the conditions of scarcity and demand for these shitty short term solutions.

    it was a solid strategy

    For 99% of human history if someone deliberately tried to create conditions of poverty for the majority of a population they would be deposed by that population. We have been turned into livestock.

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    [–] 198 points 1 year ago (10 children)

    He added, “We want the same prices Europe gets, we want the same prices other country gets.”

    Europeans pay very little for healthcare because they use a system designed to provide affordable healthcare and not to enrich the wealthy...

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  • [–] 92 points 1 year ago (5 children)

    Here in the States, we call that system communism.

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    Fuck the EDF!

    sorry Red Faction: Guerrilla has irrevocably changed my associations of certain phrases. Damn good game also my first PS3 game.

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  • [–] 30 points 1 year ago (3 children)

    It's a single entity that buys all the drugs and distributes it out where it's needed. It's called buying power and is very effective in negotiating a deal. They also allow generic drugs in most cases, so the patients and hospitals have options and are not held for ransom by big pharma.

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  • [–] 9 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    "But if the "single entity" does not buy enough (because the government cut the budget), THEN PEOPLE DIE!" - something I vaguely remember from debates one time the US considered possibly offering something approaching centralized health care.

    I don't know how the fuck it works. I assume the "single entity" just buys more and the government doesn't cut the budget?

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  • [–] 12 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    A real country informa a pharmaceutical what they will pay per dose for certain drugs, and if no company will agree then they will open their own labs to produce the drugs at cost. Free marker capitalism is incompatible with human decency

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  • [–] 88 points 1 year ago

    I guess I need to contact my pharmacy and find out where my check is for the drugs. According to Trump they owe me a lot of money.

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  • [–] 80 points 1 year ago (3 children)

    MAGA supporters will believe him because they don’t understand percentages.

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  • [–] 50 points 1 year ago (5 children)

    Trump cannot and will not lower drug prices. That's just another lie... Oh, how about the Eppstein files? He could certainly publish those, but he won't for obvious reasons – almost as obvious as the reasons for not lowering drug prices.

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  • [–] 18 points 1 year ago (4 children)

    Well he certainly cannot lower them 1500%

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  • [–] 7 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

    But he certainly can raise prices by 1500% once this pedo thing is over — probably a Freudian slip — he will probably do everything humanly possible to increase prices by that percentage since the lobby offered him and his cronies good terms.

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  • [–] 41 points 1 year ago* (2 children)

    Oh, this ISN’T the onion.

    This guy needs to be in a home, this is not healthy behaviour.

    Edit: are they trying to say a 33% drop?

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  • [–] 37 points 1 year ago

    Yeah, it's true. I just went to get my son's inhaler, and the pharmacy paid me 14 times what I normally pay them for it. Thank you, Mr. President.

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  • [–] 35 points 1 year ago* (1 child)

    Fucking what? Am I going to receive a check for hundreds of dollars next time I pick up my Adderall?

    He's so fucking stupid it makes my head hurt.

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  • [–] 15 points 1 year ago (5 children)

    You’re missing a zero. $14,000 in your pocket.

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  • [–] 84 points 1 year ago (4 children)

    Lol.

    I grew up in the 90s. If someone had told me America was roughly 20 years out from letting a felon rapist pedophile roll over the U.S. while it just stood by and watched I simply would have dismissed it as absurd.

    Such a comically pathetic nation.

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  • [–] 15 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    You grew up with clinton and Bush and didnt quite see a trend there?

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  • In their defense I don't think most people knew what trends to look for since such skills are attached to historical literacy the long suffering child of the humanities. History ain't boring the way it's taught in elementary, middle, and highschool is shit, rather than focusing on the push and pull of history, society, culture, and economics they focus on ye olde facts that have the same general depth as one of my ancestor trade ledgers. There's a tale in said facts but it takes a good bit of skill to weave it back together.

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  • [–] 21 points 1 year ago

    I thought this was an onion article. Then I realized it’s not…..

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  • wtf does this even mean and how does he or any of his sycophants think this could possibly be implemented outside of a command economy?

    Guess we’re getting a command economy, everyone. Hold on to your butts.

    I’m sure they’ll blame the “socialists” and “communists” when it doesn’t work.

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  • [–] 10 points 1 year ago

    The full article on Forbes gives some terms more or less guaranteeing that companies will simply stop distributing in the US. Or raise global pricing to match US levels.

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  • [–] 9 points 1 year ago

    So you go to the pharmacy and they give you a pile of adderal and, like $2000? Way better than socialism.

    If y’all thought you had an illegal immigrant problem before, lemme tell ya…

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  • [–] 14 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    So now they pay people absurd amounts to take drugs?

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  • [–] 6 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    Well, MAGA followers can't do the math any better than trump himself. My thoughts .... two months from now drug prices went up, the difference flows to DJT and his inner circle while MAGA celebrate the new prices

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    Filthy rich old fuck on meds wants low prices.

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