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King Vidiot posted:i'm going to poo poo into your eyeballs and give you pinkeye and charge you $5000 for a conjunctivitis pill and you'll buy it because you're a gullible dipshit Lol no you wont. Here in the UK it's £8.20 for any prescription drug because we have the NHS while you yanks get ripped off.
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 this guy is doing this just to boost Hillary's drug plan. False Flag, because nobody in their right mind would boost the price of an out-of-patent drug 5000%.
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Tramadol Junkie posted:Lol no you wont. Here in the UK it's £8.20 for any prescription drug because we have the NHS while you yanks get ripped off. Move to Wales and save that £8.20 per prescription too. And Cardiff is the best place to live in the UK too apparently! (Just find a way to not have to suffer the lovely wages those of us who live here get).
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EL BROMANCE posted:Move to Wales and save that £8.20 per prescription too. NO thanks I cant stand you sheep shagging, taffy bastards. Scotland maybe, they still have free prescriptions.
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Sep 22, 2015 14:30
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My Q-Face posted:
Actually he's just a stupid selfish rear end in a top hat.
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Sep 22, 2015 14:41
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Also to all the people wondering why no one makes a generic, companies often subtly control the supplies of the precursors needed to make their drugs. This makes it much harder to manufacture generic versions of said drugs.
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Sep 22, 2015 14:44
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lol, monopoly is de facto legal weeee
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Sep 22, 2015 14:46
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How can you have so much money and still have such a ridiculous loving haircut. Like does he walk into a fancy salon and ask them to bring out the bowl like momma used to do.
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d3c0y2 posted:How can you have so much money and still have such a ridiculous loving haircut. There's no pill for bad taste.
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Sep 22, 2015 15:13
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it was reported here that it will be free to people who can't afford it, not really sure how that works. if I have 750 bux in the entire world, do I still have to pay to live?
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Sep 22, 2015 15:22
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it gives me hope that if masked men strung this guy up from the nearest convenient lamp post and hung a sign around his neck listing his crimes the vast majority of people would be like "well. that dude DID suck poo poo"
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Sep 22, 2015 15:22
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well maybe people shouldn't let dudes cum in their rear end and not worry about AIDS in the first place.
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Sep 22, 2015 15:25
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loving l o l at reading any of this tryhard SJW OP poo poo
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Sep 22, 2015 15:32
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is that a jewish last name? i dont know, but this seems like a very jewish thing to do
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Sep 22, 2015 15:32
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lol if you think $13.50 per pill isn't amoral price gouging in the first place
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Sep 22, 2015 15:34
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Whiskey Sours posted:is that a jewish last name? i dont know, but this seems like a very jewish thing to do Not really it goes against the principals of Tikun Olam.
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Sep 22, 2015 15:37
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not soon enough op...
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Sep 22, 2015 15:38
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Whiskey Sours posted:is that a jewish last name? i dont know, but this seems like a very jewish thing to do Albanian I think.
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FogHelmut posted:lol if you think $13.50 per pill isn't amoral price gouging in the first place they were previously only making $5 million dollars in profit. 
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Redgrendel2001 posted:Albanian I think.
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Redgrendel2001 posted:Albanian I think. clever slavs...
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Sep 22, 2015 15:48
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Holy much did he pay for the brand name or whatever? Because if someone makes a generic version in response to this and no one buys his anymore, that could be funny, right?
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Professor Shark posted:Holy much did he pay for the brand name or whatever? Because if someone makes a generic version in response to this and no one buys his anymore, that could be funny, right? barrier of entry for pharmaceuticals is basically impossible to break through. our government is supposed to prevent that kind of thing but... heh
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Sep 22, 2015 16:01
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Reminder that Donald Trump is unironically 10000% more likely to do anything cool about this or call the guy a piece of poo poo than  is.
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Sep 22, 2015 16:20
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nomadologique posted:ie the pill is only "exclusive" bc nobody is making a generic version, he just bought the brand-name it seems he's also exploiting a loophole to make it impossible for other companies to acquire the materials to offer a generic
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Sep 22, 2015 16:22
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I hope he is killed by an assassin.
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Sep 22, 2015 16:29
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Drunk Nerds posted:Allow me to explain the OP was he jewish
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Sep 22, 2015 16:32
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Professor Shark posted:So freemarket.txt says someone will make it for only $50 a pill, right? it's pretty simple: step 1 : find super obscure yet life-saving drug that only one company bothers to produce because volume & margins are so low step 2 : buy out company and restrict distribution so competition has a harder time reverse engineering the drug, raise price x5000 step 3 : rake in money while another pharma company rushes to produce a reasonably priced generic which will probably take months step 4 : go to step 1
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Sep 22, 2015 16:33
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no you see he's actually super rational and found a flaw in the free market where this drug wasn't competitive enough and is just encouraging that competition 
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Sep 22, 2015 16:34
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The sad thing is until another company comes up with a generic alternative or the government intervenes he's going to make a killing. And some people will die.
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Sep 22, 2015 16:36
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'wait a second... oh my god i've figured it out... i'm a genius!! people don't like dying! i'll make millions' *holds life-saving drug hostage for a bajillion dollars holding his pinky up like loving dr. evil* 'buhhh no one understands my genius loving libtards'
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quote:In the United States, as of 2015, with the acquisition of U.S. marketing of Daraprim tablets by Turing Pharmaceuticals,[14] pyrimethamine has become a single-source and specialty pharmacy item, and the cost of pyrimethamine has increased.[15] The cost of a monthly course for a person on 75 mg rose to about $75,000/month, from $13/tablet to $833/tablet,[16] or $750 per tablet per a New York Times report from September 2015.[17][18] Outpatients can no longer obtain pyrimethamine from their community pharmacy, but only through a single dispensing pharmacy, Walgreens Specialty Pharmacy, and institutions can no longer order from their general wholesaler, but have to set up an account with the Daraprim Direct program.[15] this is literally outright evil as gently caress. like at $13 a tablet with a mere 2000% markup is eye rollingly bad but hey, people being people. but this is actual evil lol
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Jeza posted:it was reported here that it will be free to people who can't afford it, not really sure how that works. if I have 750 bux in the entire world, do I still have to pay to live? There is probably some arbitrary income threshold below which you'll get the drug for free. Really the burden of this price hike is going to fall on the shoulders of the insurance companies, which will then translate to higher premiums, increasing the cost of our healthcare system as a whole.
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I hope right now real life James Bond is infiltrating their storage facilities to steal what we need to make the drug. Seriously this dude is like a bond villain. Evil slick backed hair and everything.
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Sep 22, 2015 16:40
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yes exactly. he knows no one is going to let people die because of this price hike so they'll be forced to buy the drug no matter what. it's why he chose a life-saving drug instead of some generic that makes your nose less runny or w/e
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he was also careful to place the cost of treatment as roughly equal to state of the art cancer treatments because he knew that was the upper ceiling the market could bear. it's literally a sociopath running irl mmo-style min-maxing
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Sep 22, 2015 16:43
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good thing we've got obamacare encouraging all these prices down 
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Sep 22, 2015 16:43
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nationalize the health industry imo
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Sep 22, 2015 16:45
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the law is a funny concept because doing this is legal while starting a pool to hire a hitman is not
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Nationalize every vital industry imo.
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