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Worst people on this planet next to the oil companies/for profit prisons/dictators is the pharmaceutical industry and those on Wall street that profit from it.
Fuck all the way off and then some…
I'm really excited that my insurance company decided not to cover my medication that I've taken without side effects for many years. It manages my condition well but I get to go try something new in January so they can make more money. I'm super thankful for this amazing opportunity! >

Isn’t it grand? 
My insurance company makes it extremely expensive to see specialists, never mind the meds only they can prescribe. So, of COURSE they will stop covering a particular medication I had been using to maintain a chronic condition…ya know, because I can’t afford the specialists it would take to explore the meds only they can prescribe… >

Maybe you should just eat better and stop being lazy! /s
My insurance of course won’t cover the one med that stops my migraines, so I’m welcome to pay $1000 for 8 pills! Yay! I guess I should be thankful they currently cover my autoimmune issue meds. Go USA! >

“Yeah, have you, like, tried to stop being poor?” 
This country sucks. >

Maybe 2023 will be my year! Is there a market on OnlyFans for middle age moms who are mostly in shape but like cookies? >

Hmm, maybe if there is more than one of us.  Moms eating cookies. >

We can form a bangin’ gang! Probably not the right kind of gang bang for OF though. >

I read the article and I'm truly disgusted. >

Why is this only a thing in the us? >

Because we have a giant series of insurance companies colluding with pharma companies and no public option to provide a genuinely competitive market and very limited government regulation to stop price gouging. >

Can we crowd fun a new insucrace company, ya know you that works non profit, and then we all get insurance woth reasonable prices. Just like medicare for all or what ever but call it something like "we had to crowd fund this bc the goverment never would." >

Like a co-op insurance? That would be awesome if we could make it work. >

Friendly reminder that Pfizer, one of the companies, 2021 revenue was $81.3 billion, roughly double its revenue in 2020, and is on track to make more than $100 billion for 2022.
Record profits, but raising prices. >

At no point am I defending Pfizer, drugs should be free for everyone. But I wonder how much of their profit came from the vaccine for COVID in 2021 >

I take Efexor and it's more than doubled in price over the past two years. >

Was just wondering if you had looked at the price on Mark Cuban's online pharmacy.  The generic equivalent (Venlaxafine) is $4.80 for 30 day supply for 37.5mg dose, for example. >

I'm not in the US and my dose is higher, which pushes the price up >

Maybe blank out that drug name, might not want to link medications to your account. Up to you. >

I wasn’t even thinking. 
Thanks so much for looking out. >

Glad to help, easy to let this stuff slip out, good to keep it safe! >

God this is a dark timeline >

Where’s the list of drugs that will be increased? >

That's for us to find out at the register. I know excluded drugs and tier changes for the medications are out. >

You are exactly right every time I go to get my sons meds it’s like $15-$20 more and I keep wondering why it keeps going up >

My prescriptions have steadily increased over the last six months. I feel sorry for anyone on a fixed income >

Dropping Mark Cuban’s CostPlus drug site in here just in case it helps anyone >

CostPlus helps, trust me. >

Exclusive: Drugmakers to raise prices on at least 350 drugs in U.S. in January after a multiple years of double digit billion dollar profits, not revenue PROFITS.
This article says nothing about their profits.  It's designed to make you mad at govt for trying to stop them from gauging us in the USA.  After multi-year double digit billion dollar profits, they're going to raise prices. >

BuT iNfLaTiOn is Making Us pRicE GouGE >

Drug Companies: you know what would make an incoming recession more palatable? Price gouging medicine? Sign us the fuck up >

This country sucks so bad. >

We are essentially well dressed feudalism. 
I was sitting down with an in laws relative involved in politics and she described making a generous donation to a local politician in order to change the impact of a court case her family was going through. I’ve had family that was a mayor in my town growing up and not once had we done that kind of shit. 
George Carlin said something to the effect that this is a big game run by rich people and you and me aren’t at the table. To some effect that’s totally correct. >

This problem is UNIQUELY american. >

“Notable increases expected include 9% price hikes on Bristol Myers Squibb's (BMY.N) personalized CAR-T cell therapies Abecma and Breyanzi, both of which were already more than $400,000 for the blood cancer treatments.”
Insane, that we as a people in the US allow this to be. All in an effort to beat the Biden inflation mandate that comes down in 2026. This gives them three more years to raise prices. >

We as a people don’t allow this. It’s our weasely leaders, that are bought and paid for by the drug companies that do this. There is no real representation in this country anymore. It’s disgusting! >

One half of our political demographic thinks universal healthcare will lead to communist death camps. Yes, some of the people are the problem. >

You’re right. This is the result of the propaganda campaign that has been put out by big pharm. Unfortunately, the leaders on our side haven’t been the best at showing that other half how good a decent healthcare system can be. 
Many of the people on the other side of the argument have some form of government healthcare. This needs to be constantly put in the spotlight and the positive attributes of it continually harped upon. It seems that a lot of the hierarchy in the Democratic Party doesn’t want to do this though.
You’ll never get everyone on the other side to be on our side, but I think, if it is shown to them in the right way, we can get enough to make a difference. >

There needs to be a federal cap of 4% profit for health care. Across the board, it will go far to reign in costs. The pharma companies don't want to comply? Break their patents and make the drug yourself. It'll be cheaper to build a whole new drugmaker than letting these people to perpetually gouge consumers. >

No. Just nationalize it. Fuck profit in healthcare period. Make the people that are getting rich off this destitute. >

Oh, so no more highly-paid neurosurgeons, cardiothoracic specialists, or oncologists?  Would you go to medical school for eight to ten years to become a pauper? >

I'm currently in vet school expecting to make at best 1/4th or less than a neurosurgeon would for the same amount of schooling.  So yes, I'd say that wages could come down and people would still do it. >

How many?  We can't find teachers in my area who want to tolerate the stress for a pittance, and I imagine taking others' lives in your hands is worse than coping with snotty teenagers and their difficult parents. >

You change the system wherein someone works in under served areas to pay off the loans for their education. It's not an either they make exorbitant profit or none at all. This kind of action could stabilise wages across the sector with the vast majority of workers ending up in a better position. >

A federal government $32 trillion in the hole is going to keep physicians on payroll in a national labor pool?  No way I buy that. >

Everyone is jumping on the inflation bandwagon >

Pharmacy needs no reason to increase prices in the USA as experiences have shown. >

Do y’all understand how much R&D and manufacturing for these products cost? It’s a blessing they’re around in the first place >

Why does this dumbass argument always come up?
Regulate it. Nationalize it. Then use government funds to pay for R&D. It's not complicated.
It's so maddeningly disingenuous to claim the only way to pay for R&D is to leave price-gouging drug companies alone, as if somehow by magic the only way to pay for R&D is to overcharge, and ignoring completely the record profits these companies are posting.
The dedicated *scientists* who work for these companies need funding, yes. They don't give a shit if the entity paying for it is also reaping record profits. >

Yessir I am a scientist at a big pharma company. But you saying it’s not complicated is completely untrue, it is extremely complicated. It sounds great to make it government funded but my brother where will those funds come from? From taxpayers, how else does the government source up funds? The money can’t simply appear out of thin air to fund these massive massive financially costing projects.
But I’d agree with you in that overcharging is completely immoral. But as you know this is a capitalist country and profits are all companies survive on and is the main driver for innovation and progression. Sure it’s not the most wonderful thing in the world but the competitive market gets everyone better technology and better health care every year and we need that for human development. I’d argue it’s all for the greater good after all is said and done. I’d not argue that higher ups need to make as much as they do, but again compensation is a huge motivator to do more and do better. Scientists do give a fuck, and we do think of this shit. It’s hard work and it’s very important to us. >

The bad guys won a long time ago.