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Cept he literally never said you loving troglodyteExpecting Leisuresuit to actually read the memo instead of just assuming what's in it is a mistake.
Jesus christ you are so stupid it hurts
it seems like the last 24 hours has been full of interesting celebrity tweetsa lot of great tweets in general
Reposting for a lib to actually answer.he didn't want to win and still doesn't want to be president but he still won
which TV package carries the gorilla channelall the tri-state area providers carry it
I honestly wouldn't be surprised if it was legit.Everything in Fire and Fury is real. That's clearly why it's the #1 best seller on Amazon right now.
bold strategy cotton, let's see if it pays offoh look, it did
That's true. Maybe give five years or so before it goes public domain so they can get a head start?Patents usually last 20 years from the filing date, so perhaps shortening the term of that to 5 years for pharmaceuticals could be very beneficial. The incentive for R&D is still mostly there, but it doesn't allow for two decades of a monopoly on vital medications, particularly things like insulin with a captive customer-base (diabetics have to buy it or die)
Don't allow patents on medication would be a good startThis is a very slippery slope to go down.
corporate lobbying really stinksThe market being forgeted-with in general sucks
It isn't just lobbying and corruption though - the basic principles of market economics are the reason why healthcare is so expensive. Lots of life-saving medications are patented and held by single owners who have no incentive not to price-gouge people. This exists independent of how much it costs to get something through drug approval, since the price set by a monopolist is just going to be a function of the cost of producing the pill and how much people will pay for it.Monopolies in general are cancerous and destructive regardless of the industry. Such monopolies prevent the market from functioning properly. What really sucks is that generic medications (which in many cases could replace the very expensive name-brand ones functionally for a much lower price) are often either not approved by the FDA or widely available for purchase (thus putting pressure on the monopoly to either adjust their price or lose customers and money)
It isn't just lobbying and corruption though - the basic principles of market economics are the reason why healthcare is so expensive. Lots of life-saving medications are patented and held by single owners who have no incentive not to price-gouge people. This exists independent of how much it costs to get something through drug approval, since the price set by a monopolist is just going to be a function of the cost of producing the pill and how much people will pay for it.My mother is older; at the time she was in her late 50s. As far as I can tell, younger people are given higher priority for certain treatments/specialists.
The reason why everyone pays less for healthcare outside of the United States can be summed up a couple ways. The obvious one is that people in India pay less because their currency has far less purchasing power, meaning consumer demand is lower and providers are forced to set lower prices. In other countries, there are socialized healthcare systems, or the government just aggressively regulates the prices that providers can set. We can't control one of these things, and the other two involve more regulation rather than less.
I don't know why your mother had to wait so long for life-saving medical treatment. I know very little about Switzerland's health system, but I'm reading that it's based on compulsory enrollment in private insurance, so I don't know why your provider put her on a wait-list.
