Trump supporters, a poll for you

[sweetsilence]

Herd immunity. Dear lord

Read some other posts fake republican

Stupid shits like you are why we end up where we are.

 

[NPT]

So far it looks like people are most happy with telling all of those freeloading seniors that they ought to go back to paying $300 for their insulin instead of $30. I mean, it's pricey stuff, costing Lilly and others a good $3 to make it, by now long off-patent methods. Can't expect them to operate on only a 1000% markup. Need to go back to 10000%, for sure. CEO needs a new Ferrari.

Now you talking out of your butt... you have no idea what your talking about as far as cost.

Besides that, if they want to control the price of medicines why not control the price of everything.... tuition, lawyer fees, gasoline, etc.

 

[outside shooter]

you have no idea what your talking about as far as cost.

I said $3

Experts say $2-$4

facts:

The Price of Insulin: A Q&A with Kasia Lipska

Kasia Lipska, MD, MHS, associate professor of medicine (endocrinology), discusses the basics of insulin, why it’s so expensive, and what she has uncovered in

medicine.yale.edu

 

[NPT]

I said $3

Experts say $2-$4

facts:

The Price of Insulin: A Q&A with Kasia Lipska

Kasia Lipska, MD, MHS, associate professor of medicine (endocrinology), discusses the basics of insulin, why it’s so expensive, and what she has uncovered in

medicine.yale.edu

I would guess that is about what the material to make it costs but there's a lot more to it than that. If it's that cheap to make start your own company and make it. it's doesn't have a patent on it.

 

[outside shooter]

why not control the price of everything.... tuition, lawyer fees, gasoline, etc.

none of those are a monopoly or anywhere close

Three companies make insulin and they adjust their prices in a curious lockstep. See the above article.


We place limits in conditions with no competition. Like price rises for electricity, at least in FL. The Florida Public Service Commission (PSC) approves rate increases for Florida Power & Light (FPL) in cooperation with Office of Public Counsel and the state Supreme Court. They decide whether the rate adjustment is in the public interest. FPL certainly had the right to make money but, as a de facto monopoly, they can't price gouge.

 

[Joe_Hoopsier]

There’s no interest with drug development and investing in fixing the problem. Everything focused on recurring revenue and customer LTV.

Until that changes, consider me skeptical. I’m much more bullish on medical devices.

There's still a ton of space, of the human body to be explored/ drained/ implanted/ injected.... But todays device tech, has almost reached it's limits. Yes there will be alternative devices, to achieve the same exact thing, but they are all maneuvering to get into the same exact space and suck every penny of cost out of their mature product.
I'd suggest beginning to look for other growth opportunities.
Med device has looked towards Automation for 30 yrs, but it simply doesn't work for the ROI. They have also been begging for tech that can help them reach smaller and smaller access points of the human anatomy, unsuccessfully as that capability also comes with an ROI that needs to be accounted for. Until that all comes together, I'm not seeing any silicon valley type explosion from med device for a bit. Right now, it's all Merger Acquisition, cutting the fat business stuff. NOT life savings breakthroughs.

 

[NPT]

none of those are a monopoly or anywhere close

Three companies make insulin and they adjust their prices in a curious lockstep. See the above article.


We place limits in conditions with no competition. Like price rises for electricity, at least in FL. The Florida Public Service Commission (PSC) approves rate increases for Florida Power & Light (FPL) in cooperation with Office of Public Counsel and the state Supreme Court. They decide whether the rate adjustment is in the public interest. FPL certainly had the right to make money but, as a de facto monopoly, they can't price gouge.

The companies don't have a monopoly. They make it and plenty of other companies could make it if they wanted to.

 

[Joe_Hoopsier]

As a teen I thought about pharmacy, but everyone said if I wanted to be a pharmacist, my best path would be to go to Purdue.

Wasn't gonna happen!

Even Purdue didn't agree with you? That is so odd.

 

[outside shooter]

I would guess that is about what the material to make it costs

That would be an incorrect guess.

$2-$4 is total costs: supplies, equipment, manufacturing, QC, packaging, distribution, & other things. One caveat, it is in 2018 dollars.

Link to the details: https://gh.bmj.com/content/3/5/e000850


The article urges generic companies to get into the game. It would be great if they did.

 

[BadWakeboarder]

I assume most of P2025 will move forward as expected.

I just hope the Father of Medicine, RFK, Jr., and Co don’t eff around with vax requirements in schools. My assumption is that they will in an attempt to give more funding to private schools.

Project 2025 is a myth. Unless ……

 

[WhyisIUBBcursed]

Read some other posts fake republican

Stupid shits like you are why we end up where we are.

So you’re saying the science of vaccinations and herd immunity is wrong

 

[orangecoast]

I did explain how tariffs work, since Trump's rubes keep believing his nonsense that he is somehow able to collect money from foreign countries via tariffs.

No, if Amazon wants to sell you a rug made in India and there's a 20% tariff, Amazon pays it, then Amazon raises its prices to you for the item by at least 20%, or (more likely) raises prices on everything they sell by a lesser amount. They don't just "take one for the team".

It's not a particularly hard concept.

Now apply that same brain power to taxes being increased and free government cheese.

 

[orangecoast]

No, just mountain biking shorts. Sorry to spoil your fantasy

The all-aluminum easy Racers gold rush:

with fairing:

fully enclosed (not for Florida!), if you want to pass cars

This reminds me of that Purdue dork that posted pictures of his living room furniture for some reason.

 

[outside shooter]

Now apply that same brain power to taxes being increased

Taxes are necessary if you want public schools, roads, bridges, etc. It's best to not overburden those least in a position to afford it, but I'm certainly a low tax, low spend, small government guy. Definitely right of center, fiscally. Worked for Lugar in my youth. Dick would never be a Trumper if he were alive.

and free government cheese.

Trump's free government cheese was bad. So was Biden's, though it did seem to avert the recession that gripped most of the rest of the world, when the USA had its highest unemployment in 30 years. We traded to some extent undesirably high inflation for avoidance of recession. It was a painful tightrope walk that even Trump would have had to walk, had he won in 2020.

 

[T.M.P.]

 

[sweetsilence]

Ok dickhead.

I'm saying if your kids are vaccinated then why worry?

So you’re saying the science of vaccinations and herd immunity is wrong

Ideally achieving herd immunity is the goal. But people are dipshits. Including you.

There is no way you were ever a republican.

 

[WhyisIUBBcursed]

Ok dickhead.

I'm saying if your kids are vaccinated then why worry?

Ideally achieving herd immunity is the goal. But people are dipshits. Including you.

There is no way you were ever a republican.

What does me promoting science have to do with political affiliation?

 

[WhyisIUBBcursed]

Ok dickhead.

I'm saying if your kids are vaccinated then why worry?

Ideally achieving herd immunity is the goal. But people are dipshits. Including you.

There is no way you were ever a republican.

I get you’re trying to get a rise out of me but I’m truly baffled