Cry me a river.
Better yet, Big Pharma, bleed me a river, full of the money you've gouged from the sick and the dying, of insulin profits and unpaid wages. Bleed until you fucking die, you inhuman parasites.
this post was submitted on 30 Aug 2023
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Amazed at how the same people who defend a business model that depends on price inelasticities to extract the last dime for lifesaving meds somehow react with horror at the idea that the biggest negotiator of pharmaceutical prices in the U.S. has the gall to negotiate lower prices. The government isn’t ‘dictating’ anything. It is using its market power to drive the price down.
That is the vaunted free market at work. Anything else is just corporate socialism.
corporate socialism is an oxymoron. The key to socialism is the ownership of the means of production by the workers.
What you refer to is just classical oligarchy / kleptocracy
That was a dig directed at those that shout “socialism “ at things that are clearly not socialism (like negotiating prescription drug prices), but you are of course correct. Thank you for correcting my rhetorical excess, internet friend!
A win is a win, so the Americans should take it were they can but this will just push costs elsewhere. I image they'll just recoup the profit on the next 10 most popular drugs were they can gouge. We really need to start talking about comprehensive healthcare reform, a revolution so to speak, that stops this stupid patchwork and actually give us universal healthcare.
It opens a crack to do it again. And again and again. If it didn't hurt them they wouldn't fight it so hard. But I do agree we should be trying for something more comprehensive. That said, I don't think the country is currently capable of doing something like that. We're too broken.
I I'm off the firm belief life saving medicine shouldn't cost the consumer anything. The government should be in charge and negotiate pricing with the businesses. But they're rather bleed us dry.
I image they’ll just recoup the profit on the next 10 most popular drugs were they can gouge.
If they could gouge them, they probably would be doing so already.
tHiS wIlL hUrT iNnOvAtIoN
so tired of seeing this fucking response from parasite CEOs and their wannabe bootlickers
Maybe if they didn't spend so much money on those horrible TV ads they'd have enough for R&D. And evergreening isn't innovation anyways, so idk what they're on about.
The pharmaceutical lobby can go fuck themselves.
PhRMA? So there is an actual Big Pharma?
Just wondering, but why would Big Pharma need to sue over negotiations? Are they compromising or being told what the prices will be from now on?