Paxlovid costs it’s manufacturers $13 to make, it’s research and development was FULLY Funded by the US Government. They now charge $1651.99 a dose, a 126x markup. In Germany it is $60 and they still make big profits. This is privatized medicine... hell. - ThreadSky

bladeofthes.bsky.social • 26 days ago

Paxlovid costs it’s manufacturers $13 to make, it’s research and development was FULLY Funded by the US Government.

They now charge $1651.99 a dose, a 126x markup.

In Germany it is $60 and they still make big profits.

This is privatized medicine... hell.

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linusd.bsky.social•26 days ago

Soulless profiteering. The people responsible might just as well be eating their customers. Soylent Green has arrived.

cherrywanders.bsky.social•26 days ago

Not like insulin dependent folks haven't been screaming this from the rooftops for years....

itsascam.bsky.social•26 days ago

Its A Scam

martandelus.bsky.social•26 days ago

Which is precisely why AEIR and the industry big whigs decided upon "herd immunity" and later "Learn to live with it".

Treatment is more profitable than cure, by deliberately keeping the virus circulating, money is made. In the UK, we buy these medicines too technically. it's added billions to cost

martandelus.bsky.social•26 days ago

They require mass illness to make insane profits, why else would we not have HVAC systems in every workplace? Because doing so would harm big pharma's profit margins, that's why we had so much misinformation about covid. Mass infection was a pre-requisite for extracting money.

martandelus.bsky.social•26 days ago

Profiteering with vaccines is also a thing now, it makes no difference to these companies one bit, these companies produce them not in accordance to need, just profit. So we wind up with expensive private vaccines. They don't cost £100 to produce.

https://www.oxfam.org/en/press-releases/vaccine-monopolies-make-cost-vaccinating-world-against-covid-least-5-times-more

martandelus.bsky.social•26 days ago

So what we have here is an example of how hoodwinking the world into playing disease pac-man, pharma made mega dosh and worse is that nobody appears to connect the dots. It is like being stuck in an abusive relationship, They are gaslighting us.

martandelus.bsky.social•26 days ago

The reality of the situation is that masking works to limit the spread of the disease that is being used to skim from the till. Why else would we get headlines like this?

Because viral spread is a global money maker.

martandelus.bsky.social•26 days ago

It isn't unalike the misinformation tactics that are used by big oil or big tobacco. And it gets thrown about by the same bunch of oiks too. So there's that. But we get the picture.

They saw us coming from a mile away.

cps10001.bsky.social•26 days ago

Indeed. If this comes to the UK people will die.

ageh1.bsky.social•26 days ago

The US is the Brutalist of Capitalism

davefr.bsky.social•26 days ago

Where's Luigi when you need him?

viv42.bsky.social•26 days ago

😮

huijunghellion.bsky.social•26 days ago

The sooner we can free ourselves from the delusion that we have *rights, that justice exists, that this capitalist, WS, colonist govt cares about anything but money and stealing resources, & instead see they are actively trying to exploit & destroy us, the faster we can make real changes.

katielikescake.bsky.social•26 days ago

In other words fully funded by the same tax payers they are ripping off.

passionpants.bsky.social•26 days ago

Note this Keir Starmer and Wes Streeting.

frankieboy1964.bsky.social•26 days ago

Exploiting the sick for Wealth, what despicable people you American's have had, with Washington Rule.

paulnuk.bsky.social•26 days ago

So much for competition reducing prices.

rdays.com•26 days ago

Nobody in America pays those imaginary bills, except people who make too much to be on medicaid and don't make enough to be able to afford insurance.

The richest among us, don't pay anything since their insurance covers it all.

Employer based health insurance is an unsustainable nightmare.

seriesjunkie.bsky.social•26 days ago

Daily reminder... Anyone can be a hero!

seriesjunkie.bsky.social•26 days ago

nomx2.bsky.social•26 days ago

All healthcare and pharmaceutical companies at the very least should be non-profit with salary restrictions on all executives. Billionaires are not needed for a just society.

execrable.bsky.social•26 days ago

In the UK the govt is prepared to pay £2.50 for 30 Paxlovid tablets.

sanduka.bsky.social•26 days ago

Thank you Trump and his cronies! Pigs.

necantaloupe.bsky.social•26 days ago

Yet they celebrate the US as the beacon of capitalism. Gross inequality is not success.

cps10001.bsky.social•26 days ago

Profiteering from ill health is immoral

biggusd.bsky.social•26 days ago

They load you with debt -education, property, cars, family a vacation every few years. Once you've finally got ahead they claw it all back through healthcare, retirement village, nursing home and for the final hoorah a casket. 🙄

elizabethwilkinson.bsky.social•26 days ago

The wealth transfer nobody thinks about.

weegieman.bsky.social•26 days ago

For most people here in Germany, it would cost €10 for a three months supply.

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