• Kumatomic@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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    7 months ago

    This is the dumbest thing I’ve read in a month. It was originally and still is a diabetes drug. Go lick more corporate boots.

    • Flying Squid@lemmy.world
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      7 months ago

      I’ve seen that argument about expensive drugs over and over and over.

      And you know what it’s an argument in favor of?

      Government-subsidized research.

      It’s not an argument in favor of pricing drugs so high that only the rich can afford them. At all.

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        7 months ago

        Exactly. It’s an argument for regulation. Also maybe they should spend some of their advertisement budget on R&D instead of convincing patients what they should be on.

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        7 months ago

        And let’s not forget that a great deal of the research is already publicly-funded.

        I still don’t understand how Covid vaccines are suddenly allowed to cost a fuck ton of money. Enough public money was thrown at those things to buy entire nations - why the fuck isn’t it owned by the public.