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Are lower drug prices driving up drug prices? - 538

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Trux Mint In Box's avatar

Now stop all the ghoulish commericals for chemo drugs when your oncologist would already know what to use. And there’s something weird about these ones that are for like “triple C breast cancer that didn’t respond to front line chemo”. Seems oddly specific and kind of gross for target families and patients that are obviously desperate to believe in some cure when all it offers is like 4 more weeks.

They even have a commercial where they show older person with a newborn grandchild with phrases like “every last second counts”. Seems very predatory to me.

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Mister Bubbles's avatar

All the red hearts for this. The 'fine print' warnings and disclaimers are supposed to be helpful? Informative to people who don't know shit about pharmacology? So maybe Nana makes it to Christmas, but not New Year's Day? It's perverted.

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Wookiee Monster's avatar

Save us from the tyranny of having to pay less for prescription drugs!

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carovee's avatar

First gas prices and now drug prices? Curse you, Bidenomics, for letting me spend more of my money on frivolous things like avocado toast.

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biff murphy's avatar

"RIGGING AND STOLLING Your Prescription Drug Prices And Making Them Lower!"

Oh the humanity...

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JustPixelz's avatar

My Medicare prescription plan is 50¢ per month. I take several maintenance drugs every day with a $0 co-pay. When is Old Man Biden going to do something to cut my costs?!?!?!

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Parakeetist's avatar

I, birb, like being alive too.

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Parakeetist's avatar

I cried when I found out the government lowered the price of insulin to $35 each month.

Now, my Mom can AFFORD HER MEDICINE.

Pres. Biden literally saved my mother's life.

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Lounge Lizard's avatar

My brother is a cancer survivor and thanks to the affordable care act was able to leave the East Coast and spend the last 3 years of my mother's life with her. She was overjoyed and her quality of life was improved tremendously. He would not have been able to do that before that because he would not have been able to get new health insurance. And my son was able to stay on my health insurance policy so when he needed surgery he was covered. So as pissed as I sometimes get at Obama about a lot of other things, thank goodness for the ACA and thank goodness for Joe Biden looking out for ordinary people and working to expand access to affordable health care.

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carovee's avatar

It's like conservatives forget that they have bodies, too.

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Bitter Scribe's avatar

Just be glad that it's your mom who needs insulin and not you, assuming you're under 65.

You'd have had to pay full price, because Joe Manchin thinks you'd blow the money on drugs or something otherwise.

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Stanta Knows's avatar

Not necessarily. Some insulins are capped at $35 a month by last year's <mumble, mumble> bill. My insurance company has been switching my insulins several times over the past year, but each one is currently $25 a month (so I end up worth $50 a month plus about $50 more for testing and miscellaneous supplies).

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Doug Langley's avatar

It is now a happy nest.

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Parakeetist's avatar

Y'ese

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Thesaurus Wrecks's avatar

Biden: I’m here to lower prescription drug costs.

Trump: I’m here to become a dictator. I don’t give a shit about your prescription drug costs.

Old people with lots of prescriptions. God bless Donald Trump!

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oscarphile's avatar

If he's reelected, how many of his voters will die as a direct result?

If STAYING ALIVE is no longer a consideration in the voting booth, what are we supposed to do with this cult?

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Opposite of Oligarch's avatar

DEATH PANELS, THO.

(Never forget, they really tried selling us on the idea that Obamacare involved actual Death Panels. You know, like not allowing women who need an abortion for their own safety to get one.)

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carovee's avatar

Oh right, back when government interfering with health care decisions was a bad thing*.

*Republicans never opposed government interfering with health care decisions; they care deeply about whose decisions are interfered with.

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rmontcal's avatar

Democrats have trouble with messaging, because they aren’t comfortable saying dumb on the daily like republicans are. But this seems like an easy one - everyone remembers “death panels”. Texas Rs denying health care to an endangered pregnant woman should be pretty easy to hang around their necks, those assholes!

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JustPixelz's avatar

Plus Trump is going make us go to the dentist. DRILL DRILL DRILL!

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tempusfugit's avatar

They truly live in and for HATE. Nothing else.

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Gingerwentworth's Theory's avatar

It's just in teresting to bear in mind the way "capping insulin at $35" is cloaked in their minds as something bad. First you'd have to tackle an actual diabetic bc others would have no opinion-- but what would they say? Anyway, they always have some bs.

Today I have received my beautiful red and white Biden sign I got on etsy for my window. It says -- on a red background-- MADE YA LOOK

VOTE JOE BIDEN 2024

in white caps. Hope no maniacs come and shoot me. Anyway, somebody's got to do something for the man. In my main window I hang a portrait of Santa from an old calendar also red and white. I was thinking tonight how similar they are amirite? I think I am.

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Gingerwentworth's Theory's avatar

Just picture the second line under the first, pls! It's great.

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Opposite of Oligarch's avatar

Just as Jesus demands. Also: suspicion.

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Momo's avatar

Why isn't he screaming? I can't even tell who he's exacting revenge on. Totally unpresidential.

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Opposite of Oligarch's avatar

WHARRR ACCORDIAN HANDS?!

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Cateck's avatar

OT: The absolute audacity of these people:

Christian Ziegler wants a multimillion-dollar buyout to resign as the Republican Party of Florida’s (RPOF) Chair, party sources confirmed.

https://twitter.com/highbrow_nobrow/status/1735382576192221507?s=46&t=Gp_FLxOB8_smKdryqSbkGg

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Eileen's avatar

HAHAHAHAHA!!!!

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abbienormal's avatar

Just hilarious.

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Darth Trad's avatar

I hope that woman he assaulted gets all of it in a civil case and his ass gets to go to prison.

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John Thorstensen's avatar

Maybe even the rest of him goes to prison, too!

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Thesaurus Wrecks's avatar

Is the media’s “Biden to old” narrative peaking too early?

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Bobathonic's avatar

It's already past its prime.

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Thesaurus Wrecks's avatar

It becoming old and worn out. Pun intended.

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Gout Machine's avatar

Um, can we get some teeth in the gag orders now?

𝐀𝐫𝐭𝐡𝐮𝐫 𝐄𝐧𝐠𝐨𝐫𝐨𝐧, 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐌𝐚𝐧𝐡𝐚𝐭𝐭𝐚𝐧 𝐣𝐮𝐝𝐠𝐞 𝐨𝐯𝐞𝐫𝐬𝐞𝐞𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐬𝐩𝐫𝐚𝐰𝐥𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐟𝐫𝐚𝐮𝐝 𝐭𝐫𝐢𝐚𝐥 𝐚𝐠𝐚𝐢𝐧𝐬𝐭 𝐟𝐨𝐫𝐦𝐞𝐫 𝐏𝐫𝐞𝐬𝐢𝐝𝐞𝐧𝐭 𝐃𝐨𝐧𝐚𝐥𝐝 𝐓𝐫𝐮𝐦𝐩 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐡𝐢𝐬 𝐛𝐮𝐬𝐢𝐧𝐞𝐬𝐬 𝐞𝐦𝐩𝐢𝐫𝐞, 𝐰𝐚𝐬 𝐞𝐯𝐚𝐜𝐮𝐚𝐭𝐞𝐝 𝐟𝐫𝐨𝐦 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐜𝐨𝐮𝐫𝐭𝐡𝐨𝐮𝐬𝐞 𝐓𝐮𝐞𝐬𝐝𝐚𝐲 𝐚𝐟𝐭𝐞𝐫 𝐚 𝐦𝐚𝐧 𝐬𝐞𝐭 𝐩𝐚𝐩𝐞𝐫𝐬 𝐨𝐧 𝐟𝐢𝐫𝐞 𝐨𝐮𝐭𝐬𝐢𝐝𝐞 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐜𝐨𝐮𝐫𝐭𝐫𝐨𝐨𝐦. 𝐇𝐞 𝐭𝐡𝐞𝐧 𝐩𝐫𝐨𝐜𝐞𝐞𝐝𝐞𝐝 𝐭𝐨 𝐮𝐬𝐞 𝐦𝐮𝐥𝐭𝐢𝐩𝐥𝐞 𝐟𝐢𝐫𝐞 𝐞𝐱𝐭𝐢𝐧𝐠𝐮𝐢𝐬𝐡𝐞𝐫𝐬 𝐭𝐨 𝐩𝐮𝐭 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐟𝐢𝐫𝐞 𝐨𝐮𝐭, 𝐁𝐮𝐬𝐢𝐧𝐞𝐬𝐬 𝐈𝐧𝐬𝐢𝐝𝐞𝐫 𝐫𝐞𝐩𝐨𝐫𝐭𝐞𝐝, 𝐜𝐢𝐭𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐭𝐰𝐨 𝐬𝐨𝐮𝐫𝐜𝐞𝐬. 𝐓𝐡𝐞 𝐦𝐚𝐧 𝐰𝐚𝐬 𝐚𝐫𝐫𝐞𝐬𝐭𝐞𝐝 𝐟𝐨𝐥𝐥𝐨𝐰𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐢𝐧𝐜𝐢𝐝𝐞𝐧𝐭. 𝐓𝐡𝐞 𝐟𝐫𝐚𝐮𝐝 𝐭𝐫𝐢𝐚𝐥 𝐡𝐚𝐝 𝐟𝐢𝐧𝐢𝐬𝐡𝐞𝐝 𝐰𝐢𝐭𝐡 𝐭𝐞𝐬𝐭𝐢𝐦𝐨𝐧𝐲 𝐢𝐧 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐡𝐨𝐮𝐫𝐬 𝐩𝐫𝐢𝐨𝐫, 𝐚𝐥𝐭𝐡𝐨𝐮𝐠𝐡 𝐚 𝐝𝐞𝐜𝐢𝐬𝐢𝐨𝐧 𝐢𝐬 𝐧𝐨𝐭 𝐞𝐱𝐩𝐞𝐜𝐭𝐞𝐝 𝐮𝐧𝐭𝐢𝐥 𝐧𝐞𝐱𝐭 𝐲𝐞𝐚𝐫.

https://news.yahoo.com/judge-trump-fraud-trial-evacuated-235442497.html

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Richard S's avatar

ANTIFA!!! BLM!!! Sigh......

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Aquaman, Real Estate Investor.'s avatar

Next year sounds forever away.

Till you remember that it's basically 2 weeks.

Tick tock!

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DDB9000's avatar

Not soon enough. Hate the holiday scamsession each year...

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belfryo's avatar

right?

I mean, Engoron can do whatever I suppose, Trump's MAGA goons don't have ME or any of my assistants on their hit list. I'm not gonna treat it as an emergency if HE isn't

seriously though...I don't get it...Engoron is 100% within his rights MORALLY and LEGALLY throwing shit stain in priosm

sigh

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“GO AWAY. ‘BATIN’.”

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BillEGoatSmile's avatar

O/T: The jury has the case in the Giuliani defamation trial. He opted not to testify.

I hope the jury brought an extra-large calculator.

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carovee's avatar

Keep adding zeros until Giuliani shows up.

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everett fanuelli's avatar

Rudy also defamed the two ladies in a news conference a couple.days ago saying everything he said about them is true

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ciaobella's avatar

OI course, there's already a verdict that he did defame them.

When the judge heard that Rudy was still ranting about how what he was was true, he asked Rudy's lawyer, "is your client competent for this trial?"

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Trespassers Will's avatar

The only question for them is: Should they leave some money for the next victim?

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ciaobella's avatar

They could just take it all and put some in trust for other victims!

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John Thorstensen's avatar

You mean, like, put some parsley on it? :-)

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ciaobella's avatar

It's OK, they can use scientific notation for the damage award amount.

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DDB9000's avatar

A $Googolplex judgment is NOT EHOUGH!

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John Thorstensen's avatar

It's just a little bitty number to the upper right of the "10". How can it matter?

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Mighty Little Dog's avatar

Justice be swift and true

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Zeitgeist's avatar

Also hoping the courthouse has a giant novelty check printer.

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ciaobella's avatar

Fucking Jones. He's been evading the civil judgment for so long that the evasion itself must constitute a crime. If they can't get his cash, then put him behind bars.

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carovee's avatar

I don't get why he isn't in jail or living on the street.

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belfryo's avatar

I don't understand...

the money is NO LONGER HIS

it is NOT UP TO HIM to HAND IT OVER

It is up to the courts to fucking TAKE IT FROM HIM

because, again....IT IS NO LONGER HIS MONEY

can anyone explain this to me? Do the Sandy Hook parents NOT have the fucking RIGHT to have this awfulness BEHIND them? Do THEIR rights NOT FUCKING COUNT for anything????

I swear to fuck I want to punch the justice system in the dick over this...this isn't about Jones anymore

TAKE

THE

MONEY

FROM

HIM

NOW

the end

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ciaobella's avatar

I'm not even talking about debtor's prison. I'm talking about criminal evasion of civil judgment. Kinda like how you can go to prison for bankruptcy fraud.

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belfryo's avatar

It is now 'stolen money' because it is not his

you don[t wait for him to hand it over

YOU TAKE IT FROM HIM

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Msgr MΩment, Neurodegenerate's avatar

Stollen money..

It's extra sweet.

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Opposite of Oligarch's avatar

“Biden to announce that he can’t stop aging: is incorrigible.”

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Cincinnatus's avatar

"‘Groundbreaking’ anti-aging drug for dogs moves closer to gaining FDA approval"

https://nypost.com/2023/12/10/lifestyle/groundbreaking-anti-aging-drug-for-dogs-moves-closer-to-gaining-fda-approval/

Waiting for the first reports of human use for this, like ivermectin for COVID.

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rmontcal's avatar

Does it decrease the “dog years” multiple down from 7 to something more sane like 6.28?

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Opposite of Oligarch's avatar

Good thing Trump hates dogs.

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John Thorstensen's avatar

In Trump's case, his evident contempt for dogs is a striking symptom of his overall psychopathology.

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everett fanuelli's avatar

He should try some orange tanner and a combover

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Opposite of Oligarch's avatar

It would actually be hysterical if he showed up for a presser caked in orange makeup and said, “Like this? Is this how it’s done?”

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Kel Varnsen's avatar

That would be a great “dark Brandon”

Orange Brandon!

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Opposite of Oligarch's avatar

I heard Zelenskyy is PAYING him to age.

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Gout Machine's avatar

In five days I'll be in Vienna, so I plan to have all the stollen. OK, probably more sachertorte, but still.

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Linda's Bitter Disappointment's avatar

In five days, I'll be in Amarillo. Or I should be just about home again, five days from now.

I'm not looking forward to this trip. I want to see my son and all, but it's a journey, and we're not having the best automotive luck.

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Nuernburger's avatar

Goulash and erdapfel.

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Opposite of Oligarch's avatar

I often erdapfel after goulash.

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Darth Trad's avatar

Don't ask for a 'Danish'. As even the Danish don't call them that. They call them 'Viennabrot'. I think the Austrians called it a 'Pittsburgh Bun'.

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Gout Machine's avatar

My boss is a Dane, so I like to rile him up that way.

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Darth Trad's avatar

Ask him about the old days when they could stand on a box Thursday and spot the priest walking over to give the Sunday sermon. It's pretty fucking flat.

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Bagels of Doom's avatar

the great stollening of 2024

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NotinTexasanymore's avatar

I am even making a Stollen tomorrow!

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Darth Trad's avatar

Ride like it was stollen!

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Bagels of Doom's avatar

oooh! that's awesome! you'll get a workout from the kneading too. :D

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