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When I was diagnosed with cancer, I set out to understand why a single pill of Revlimid cost the same as a new iPhone. I’ve covered high drug prices as a reporter for years. What I discovered shocked even me.
When I was diagnosed with cancer, I set out to understand why a single pill of Revlimid cost the same as a new iPhone. I’ve covered high drug prices as a reporter for years. What I discovered shocked even me.
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I’m a long term money pit well aware that this regime in particular prefers me dead. I’m too expensive
And I'm fully in favor of the drug industry being very profitable. What's a worthy endeavor if not saving lives and lessening suffering? Just not like this.
A lot of research is done at the University and non-profit level, then taken up by Pharma to produce
Instead of $400b in profits, they'll be ok with $300b.
Big Pharma
Doctors
Researchers
Labs
Big Insurance
Nurses
Charities
Lobbyists
All segments would be severely impacted.
Someone change my mind
(Please)
Cervical cancer has been all but eliminated in the cohort of people who received the HPV vaccination series.
Researchers don't make significant salaries.
But the large pharmaceutical companies, no doubt that they're price gouging
At one point I was paying out of pocket for multiple meds.
My ex called it "lung rent."
Bet y’all aren’t seeing those commercials constantly.
Pharma in this country is so fucked. It won’t get any better with all of the research not being funded.
Keep up the good work!
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Corporations now own 99% of our elected officials. Unless ur wealthy, most Americans feel unrepresented & unheard.
It's why Trump won.
It's why Saving Democracy/Capitalism means little to many Americans.
Write about that.
It's wild to see how absolutely stupid so many people are
Incredibly weird to try to "what about" this
My statement stands. Now go do something worthwhile.
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I hope each of these executives develops some sort of cancer.
I wish you much healing and diminishing pain.
Thank you.
(MS drug).
Fortunately, I’m on Medicare. I met my $2000 copay cap.
This injectable drug retails for $19,000 and is taken monthly.
If the Medicare cap is lifted, I will be ending treatment.
But Revlimid is also, I soon learned, extraordinarily expensive, costing nearly $1,000 for each daily pill. (Although, I later discovered, a capsule costs just 25 cents to make.)
Keep pushing the prices higher, we will figure out what to do you fucking vampires
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We The People.
Capitalism is out of control. It's Greedism!
It literally is straight-up greed.
Adam Smith used the word 'education' EIGHTY Times in Wealth of Nations. He wrote "read, write and ACCOUNT" FIVE times.
Have any modern economists ever heard of Adam Smith? He didn't write anything abt Planned Obsolescence though!
The dirty tricks after patent expiry no that shouldn’t t have been allowed
Disgusting greed.
Same as why Chiefs are overpaid, then a train worker or any other job that has some kind of danger always hanging around you, has a hard life and has to fight to get a 'dangerous job bonus'!
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God gives y'all cancer 'cos ye're better dead than red!
It's true!
probly says so in the bybull.
https://www.pbs.gov.au/medicine/item/11620n-11622q
By the look on my face he decided to ask if FIVE HUNDRED DOLLARS was doable. He left the hospital, never another dose of chemo and lived well another 25 yrs.
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I'm sharing this all over the place. He hits it. He says it all.
https://youtu.be/7Wvwy3RqBl0?si=zcJ_Dz6MCvBO-b-X
A few words so layman
Can understand
Is it really an abuse on the people, or is it really valuable
Revlimid is also, I soon learned, extraordinarily expensive, costing nearly $1,000 for each daily pill. (Although, I later discovered, a capsule costs just 25 cents to make.)
But the obscene profit-seeking by Celgene is just gross, holding people’s lives for ransom because they can.
More complex answer. FUCKING ASSHOLES GREED.
That retailed at $17,000 a month and it only had a 7% chance of helping. It gave 95% of people severe diarrhea. Medicare and my supplement agreed to pay. I refused it. How was it ever approved?
Keep fighting the fight and may your journey be filled with love and hope.
That's reality.
If that *was* the answer for why the author was shocked.... how stupid must one be to be shocked?
They’ve lost the humanity plot to being in a society
https://www.pbs.gov.au/medicine/item/11063G-11064H-12050F-12057N-12060R-12061T-12980E-12988N-13658W-13661B-2796E-2802L-5784K-9643M
It’s rapacious and in my view unethical
#pharma #cancer
And that is why health care should not be a private good, & why so many enlightened countries have public systems
but not the USA, where people die faster
The cost to make is .25 cents per pill. This level of greed is sadistic.