House Bill to Lower Insulin Costs PASSES - 193 GOPers Voted AGAINST it - Just 12 Voted FOR

[pknopp]

Actually, it was Obama health scam that did it to us. Between 2012 and 2016, the price of insulin doubled. Thanks Obama

In that Obamacare did absolutely nothing to address the cost side it never should have passed.

 

[Gabe Lackmann]

"Here sign this agreement to permit us to chop off your legs...
Whaaaat...you don't want your mother to get 50% off gas for the next year??...hmmmm...?"

So fucking trivial...so stupid.

 

[TNHarley]

There are ways to lower the cost using the free market.
Why is the federal supremacists answer always CONTROL?

 

[pknopp]

There are ways to lower the cost using the free market.
Why is the federal supremacists answer always CONTROL?

Oddly the "free marketers" never seem to present these great idea's. Saying something can be done is a long ways from actually doing it.

 

[AzogtheDefiler]

I mean...okay. That was uncalled for. Calm down dude

100% called for

 

[AzogtheDefiler]

Oddly the "free marketers" never seem to present these great idea's. Saying something can be done is a long ways from actually doing it

Never? Idiot

 

[TNHarley]

Oddly the "free marketers" never seem to present these great idea's. Saying something can be done is a long ways from actually doing it.

Oddly, the free market cant address this issue with the federal govt keeping the market closed.

 

[pknopp]

Never? Idiot

Never, we are still waiting for that great plan Trump had all ready to go that everyone was going to love.

 

[Oddball]

How does the entire FDA facilitate rent seeking and monopolists?

History of the Food and Drug Administration - Wikipedia

"In June 1906, President Theodore Roosevelt signed into law the Food and Drug Act, also known as the 'Wiley Act' after its chief advocate.[1]

"The Act prohibited, under penalty of seizure of goods, the interstate transport of food which had been 'adulterated,' with that term referring to the addition of fillers of reduced 'quality or strength,' coloring to conceal "damage or inferiority," formulation with additives 'injurious to health,' or the use of 'filthy, decomposed, or putrid' substances"

If you have to ask that after the last two years, you probably shouldn't be around sharp objects.

 

[pknopp]

Oddly, the free market cant address this issue with the federal govt keeping the market closed.

It's working in other countries so maybe we are just failures here?

 

[Cecilie1200]

From your link:

Top 10 Countries Where Insulin is Most Expensive (2018 RAND Corporation):​

1. United States — $98.70
2. Chile — $21.48
3. Mexico — $16.48
4. Japan — $14.40
5. Switzerland — $12.46
6. Canada — $12.00
7. Germany — $11.00
8. Korea — $10.30
9. Luxembourg — $10.15
10. Italy — $10.03

This is what American Free Market ideology does to us.

Well, let's keep in mind that the high prices the United States pays for all pharmaceuticals underwrites the low prices other countries pay. The governments of other countries impose strict price controls on the pharmaceutical companies, who then shift that cost onto Americans.

 

[Oddball]

Oddly the "free marketers" never seem to present these great idea's. Saying something can be done is a long ways from actually doing it.

The "great idea" is get do-gooder gubmint the fuck out of the way.

 

[AzogtheDefiler]

Never, we are still waiting for that great plan Trump had all ready to go that everyone was going to love.

In our history? Never? Idiot

 

[Oddball]

It's working in other countries so maybe we are just failures here?

Define "working".

 

[Cecilie1200]

Who is making up the difference in the price? Is it the taxpayer?

Is it ever anyone else?

 

[pknopp]

In our history? Never? Idiot

Never,

 

[pknopp]

Define "working".

Affordable for people who need it to live.

1. United States — $98.70
2. Chile — $21.48
3. Mexico — $16.48
4. Japan — $14.40
5. Switzerland — $12.46
6. Canada — $12.00
7. Germany — $11.00
8. Korea — $10.30
9. Luxembourg — $10.15
10. Italy — $10.03.

 

[Cecilie1200]

I'd asking you to stop being a fucking idiot, but it must be genetic.

You cannot "invent' something that occurs naturally! Who discovered gold in California? Do you say he invented it?

What you CAN invent is a synthetic version of the naturally-occurring substance, however. The naturally-occurring insulins from dogs and pigs that we used prior to 1978 caused allergic reactions in some people.

 

[AzogtheDefiler]

Never,

So free market capitalists have added zero value to America since inception? That is your statement.

 

[AzogtheDefiler]

Affordable for people who need it to live.

1. United States — $98.70
2. Chile — $21.48
3. Mexico — $16.48
4. Japan — $14.40
5. Switzerland — $12.46
6. Canada — $12.00
7. Germany — $11.00
8. Korea — $10.30
9. Luxembourg — $10.15
10. Italy — $10.03.

So then why do people from those countries want to come and live here?