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UpInArms

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14. The monetizing of healthcare

Sun Mar 29, 2020, 09:31 AM

Mar 2020

Has created monsters

Martin Shkreli

On September 17, 2015, Dave Muoio of Healio, an in-depth clinical information website for health care specialists,[63] reported on a letter from the Infectious Diseases Society of America and the HIV Medicine Association to executives at Turing,[64] questioning a new pricing for Daraprim.[61] The price of a dose of the drug in the U.S. market increased from US$13.50 to US$750 per pill, overnight, a factor of 56.

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Nina Bernstein @NinaBernstein1: The price of putting private profits over public good. ⁦ [View all] BeckyDem Mar 2020 OP

YUP! SheltieLover Mar 2020 #1

It is killing our society.Who does this except for sociopaths? BeckyDem Mar 2020 #3

Exactly! SheltieLover Mar 2020 #5

Redistribution of wealth. That is a mantra from the Reagan era, born through that whole BeckyDem Mar 2020 #7

Absolutely! SheltieLover Mar 2020 #8

Its sad but that mindset is what you see in the Ron Paul libertarian approach too. The cruelty BeckyDem Mar 2020 #10

YES! SheltieLover Mar 2020 #11

We have to win! BeckyDem Mar 2020 #12

ABSOLUTELY! SheltieLover Mar 2020 #13

Are you in Oklahoma? UpInArms Mar 2020 #18

No SheltieLover Mar 2020 #19

I remember traveling across the country in the early '90s UpInArms Mar 2020 #20

Neoliberalism is an abject failure malaise Mar 2020 #2

+1 BeckyDem Mar 2020 #4

Our whole medical system is set up for private profits over public good. n/t area51 Mar 2020 #6

Yes! SheltieLover Mar 2020 #9

The monetizing of healthcare UpInArms Mar 2020 #14

So they are no different than say, the Mob. Pay up or die. BeckyDem Mar 2020 #15

The insurance companies are the death panel enforcers UpInArms Mar 2020 #16

Have been for a long time. BeckyDem Mar 2020 #17