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Huh. California is the world's fifth largest economy, so they should be able to pull that off. And I'll bet they could sell to Washington and Oregon as well.
Driving down the cost of living should be a bedrock democrat priority. Necessities need to be cheaper. >

You can bet that at least Manchin will be one of the ones throwing a temper tantrum. >

"Daddy make them stop!" >

Sep 21, 2021 Manchin's daughter, Heather Bresch, was the president and chief executive officer of Mylan Inc ., a pharmaceutical company that specialized in generic drugs. The company raised the price of a two-pack of EpiPen from around $124 dollars in 2009 to $609 in 2016. >

And Manchin help push through making them mandatory in schools, at full price. >

Imagine if all of our politicians did their jobs and acted in the best interest of their constituents instead of betraying their offices by fucking over Americans, purely to continue stacking up their already considerable wealth.
The US has so much wealth, power, and resources; just imagine how much more prosperous all of our lives could be (99% of them anyways) be if our elected officials actually did their jobs and ran the all-time richest ever country for the people.
It’s a damn shame that the lack of a limit for greed is one of the main flaws of human psychology... we could’ve been such a more advanced, healthy civilization by now. >

sigh...we need a 4th branch to watch the congress, 5th branch to watch the supreme court, 6th branch to watch the president, because the three branches checks and balances are not working. >

IMHO, the biggest thing America is lacking is a free and well organized workforce (e.g. real unions, workers' owned news media, workers' NGOs and other associations, etc.). 
Because, in government and in the economy, they are the counterbalance to the elites, to corporations and to the ultra-wealthy. Without them, there's no checks-and-balances nor resistance on capitalism's path to "enslave" and corrupt everything and everybody.
In politics, they are to left wing parties, what capitalists are to right wing parties. Without them, left wing parties are severely weakened and tend to drift to the right. 
America's unions and workforce have been castrated, put in straitjackets, and stripped of their fundamental rights and freedoms (that several European countries take for granted, such as Denmark and other Nordic countries, Germany, France, and Switzerland).
And US population has been brainwashed into thinking of them as Satan's children. Thus, only 10% of the workforce is unionized (e.g. Denmark 67%, Sweden 65%, Iceland 91%) >

Until "Right to Work" and "Citizens United vs. Federal Election Commission" are dealt with don't expect much.
Too many American families have been beat down to where two incomes are needed to stay afloat. Lose one income and the family is in dire financial straights.
With job protections being minimal and (for the most part) weak unions don't expect much until a significant percent decide they have nothing to lose. >

I agree for the most part.
However, for "Right to Work", it wouldn't be a problem, if unions were actually free, and had, at least, the same rights and freedoms as in Europe.
Because, there, unions are independent from all corporations and all branches. They are associations that you join outside of your company. They are active at industry and national levels. They negotiate directly with the government, political parties, and industry representatives to implement industry/nation wide regulations, that are binding to all companies (and certainly not at company, and even less at branch levels).
That's why, in Europe, companies, branches, and bosses don't care (and don't even know) if you're a member of a union or not. Because regulations affect equally all companies in an industry and/or in the country.
So, there are no incentives for union busting/suppression, nor any for "Right to Work" regulations on the other side of the pond. >

I fucking love public options, god fucking damn that shit is so hot.  
Let the private market exist, if we can't force their prices down with regulation then we can do it with competition.  
What citizen in California is going to look at $500 insulin produced on the private market and choose it over identical insulin produced publicly and sold for $50?  (I don't know if California will be able to produce at the same scale as the private market, so their costs to produce may be higher, limited manufacturing infrastructure and whatnot.)  
The private market looks at the results and says "Holy shit we just lost 85% of our sales in California!" and what does capitalism say comes next?  
Well in a perfect world big pharma invents Insulin 2: The Diabeatening, they sell their better product at a justifiable premium and they make back their profits.  
In a slightly less perfect world they'll respond by dropping their prices, some bean licker in accounting will do the math and determine that if they drop their prices down from $500 to $49.99 they can regain majority market share while continuing to make 300% margins on their product.  
Public options are dope, they provide an inexpensive alternative, they compete against the private market, they benefit existing customers and those in need alike, and they're a good way to leverage industry change; California can't exactly offer a better product, the best they can do is offer a better priced product, but when you think about a public healthcare option we could use that to provide better baseline benefits, then the private market has to keep up.  
I like what California is doing, they're using the capitalist market dynamics to ~~destroy~~ rein in the capitalism.  Lol, don't kill half of all insurance in the universe, just create more healthcare, duh. >

very well said, i completely agree with you. Now CA needs to use this model for the housing crisis. if we leave it to the tender mercies of real estate developers all we're going to get are million dollar lux condos. having the state and local governments own and operate housing is the only way to bring in competition and lower the over all costs. if the state can use eminent domain so expand airports they can use it to set aside land for housing as well. >

Housing projects already exist. They suck because maintenance isn't kept up on them. That's part of the problem.
There aren't enough construction workers. Contractors are shady losers who got too old to do construction. Building codes have become stricter but what schools are producing construction workers? >

in most places public housing is a private concern and the lack of upkeep is greed. this is why public housing actually needs to be owned and operated by the city. in most places Section 8 is how "public" housing is handled. and i agree with you completely, the people operating those buildings are almost to a person huge pieces of shit. there is a trade school in downtown LA cranking out electricians, plumbers and construction workers. it's free and students get a decent stipend.   
what would you suggest if this isn't it? cause we've been relying on private business for decades and here we are. if private enterprise was the answer we wouldn't be having this conversation. >

fingers crossed. if the city actually stays on top of them it might work, but given the problems a lot of my friends in the city are having just getting the heat turned on i'll wait and see how it goes before getting too excited. i still don't see why the city can't managed them as well. if a for profit company can afford to make a profit and still do repairs and staff the building it seems like the city could do it too, and cheaper.  it's almost like we've decided to let real estate developers make all the rules, and it's almost like we've decided we can't do anything with out them. trust me, these are not the best and brightest, but def the greediest and laziest. >

You posted 7 minutes after me. You didn't read the article.

In the case of Baychester, for example, NYCHA was spending $14,000 a year per apartment, pouring cash into deteriorating properties. The new managers are spending $9,000 per apartment. Their costs are lower because moldy, leaky buildings have been upgraded to meet current energy standards and they require less maintenance.

There's lazy and greedy city workers too. Especially the ones who didn't fix the mold. >

you're right, i haven't read it, yet. and of course there is enough blame to go around. >

If only there was some type of public .....healthcare....or something ??? >

You mean SOCIALISM???! >

Isn’t it a uniquely American paradox when unchecked capitalism causes the government to get into medicine production to solve basic human needs. >

Insulin shouldn’t be expensive. It’s free on the NHS here in the UK because it’s so important to diabetics >

Further to this, the UK government pays nowhere near what an uninsured American diabetic has to pay for the exact same medication. Take Apidra (insulin glulisine) for example. A box of 5 solostar pens costs 28.30GBP (34.14USD) to the UK government (source: bnf.nice.org.uk) while an american diabetic would pay upwards of 500USD and that's including a discount! (source goodrx.com). Make it make sense! >

Go, California. 
Leading the way -- again. >


Go, California.
Leading the way -- always

FTFY >

its a team effort. we can't do it alone >

The people who extort diabetics for their life savings literally belong in a gulag doing hard labor for the rest of their lives >

We are viewed as, “Lifelong patients for better management of diabetes,” in a vast majority of situations as opposed to, you know, very sick people who could use a cure.  Diabetes is funky because it’s mostly invisible unless it’s terribly controlled.  So unlike cancer and Alzheimer’s, people can shrug and point saying, “Well they didn’t take care of themselves,” when something bad happens.
It’s brutal and unfortunately where I think we are destined to be forever.  I long gave up on seeing a cure in my lifetime.  So did my great grandmother.  And my grandmother.  We are far too profitable for private companies to actually cure, with a ton of plausible deniability for people to blame us anytime something bad happens.  It’s sickening. >

And that could just be the start, next up: epipen! >

Colorado is in process of capping the cost at $60 for 2 pack. 😤 $35 out of pocket for insulin among ppl w Medicare.   
We are ahead of Cali 🥰 >

The States need to do like Europe and leverage the prices before they hit market.
And in Norway (at least) anything diabetes related is free of charge. Because healthy diabetics are much cheaper. >

As a life-long Californian, I’m proud to be part of a State which will forever be a thorn in the side of the dipshit GOP. >

Sad thing is as much as it’s a thorn in the side it also gave arguably the two worst GOP presidents in history. To this day we are trying to fix the problems that Nixon and Reagen created. >

The decisions Reagan made has Truly fucked the US.  Unbelievable how one president could really stick it to so many generations after he’s dead.