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Do you have anything useful to say? Is all you can come up with some petty grade-school level personal attacks? You could have tried something like presenting actual evidence to counter my position, or addressing my points with reasoned/well thought out responses exrpressing your opinion of the matter but instead you chose to act like a petulant child.

I'm perfectly willing to have a rational discussion about this, but you just seem butt-hurt that I don't believe in laissez faire capitalism. 

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Sorry, but that doesn't address the real problem or present a decent answer.

The problem here is the FDA and our fucked up drug laws.  There's no patent that keeping other manufacturers from making it, its getting the FDA license. Theres plenty of other companies that already make this stuff for far cheaper in other countries, but our government puts miles of red tape in front of them before they can get a license for that particular drug, set up shop, and make it here.  Heck, GSK and all those other companies already make daraprim overseas; they could import it for less...or we should be able to buy it legally from overseas.  But of course, that would threaten the higher margins US pharmas can charge domestically.  Hooray for regulatory capture.  And rising healthcare costs.

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No shit. 

Nowhere did I say pricing regulation is the only answer to the problem of our out of control drug prices, but I should have made my position a bit more clear.

Look, all that other stuff is nice, but changing our shit laws around drugs in this country has proved nigh impossible. My position is that IF we can get some bills with reasonable regulations and drug certification processes made to replace our current system with something not so horrible I'm more than happy to see such a legislative measure pass. Until then however the only other solution I see is pricing regulation. 

Though in the case of Daraprim the problem of ridiculous price gouging was solved by Imprimis' replacement drug, but thats not going to happen everytime a pharmaceutical company tries that shit. Thats why we need safegaurds (i.e. pricing regulations) against that kind of BS until our system is fixed, if ever. 

As a bit of an aside for anyone interested, I found in interesting article that covers some finer points of this subject. Not agreeing or disagreeing (yet) with its contents, but I think its worth a read for anyone wanting to learn more the issue of drug pricing. Link to article.

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Well thought grownup opinion, research and life cost monies.  You sucked the wrong dick.  


Simple enough jack?

Because you're tarded with a vocabulary.   Bob spends money on joe to produce a product.   Joe makes a product.   You Want joe to give that product for a reduced price.  Because feels and shit.  Neither bob nor joe now have monies for more product now.  People die because of your liberal feels.  

I suspect that you feel that you deserve said product regardless of your contributions to it.  You don't deserve the fruits of others labor without compensation that they deem fair.

ETA:   If you don't like something don't buy it.  It's pretty fucking simple.

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Do you have anything useful to say? Is all you can come up with some petty grade-school level personal attacks? You could have tried something like presenting actual evidence to counter my position, or addressing my points with reasoned/well thought out responses exrpressing your opinion of the matter but instead you chose to act like a petulant child.

I'm perfectly willing to have a rational discussion about this, but you just seem butt-hurt that I don't believe in laissez faire capitalism. 

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I remember when I first read Ayn Rand too.

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People like him (of which there are many) will not realize the true consequences of their greed and narcissism until they are judged by God. By then it will be too late to apologize and beg for forgiveness.

Hell isn't only full of rapists and murderers.

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He sounds more like someone who is tired of paying for free shit for someone else to me.

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He promised me a new WuTang album if Trump won, I got a min or two of an intro streamed on a webcam.