there isnt. I dont see how in all hell in 6 years insulin had such a massive scarcity hike
diabetes didnt explode
cancer rates didnt explode upwards
the companies that charge for insulin are charging that much because they fucking can

They only care about muh low prices

Do I need to post the supply/demand graph and the effect price floors/caps have on it?

Please do<:pepe_sad:378719408345841664>

@Fitzydog @Deleted User oh lord. supply and demand. the thign that is totally never broken in a variety of ways

Fuck, those are terrible

Yea...

@Fitzydog that jpg quality is so bannable

the thing where companies will artificially keep supply low
or keep supply high and still charge a shti ton
because they can
invisible hand my ass

Government whore

once again a wikiepedia SVG file

Looks alright to me

HR 676 would give the National Expanded and Improved Medicare for All regional boards of governors (medical professionals) the authority to negotiate prices with pharmaceutical companies. HR 676 was drafted after consultation with medical professionals. Medical professionals support HR 676, as do many business leaders, because they don't want to have to continue to finance their employees' healthcare insurance with private, for-profit insurance companies.

No one said "medical professionals" were good at business lol

We should Nationalize the drug manufacturers and lace the export products to sterilize the rest of the world

Oh, you mean a state subsidized monopoly?

For the sterilization of the undeserving, yes

*So efficient.*

Well when your goal isn't profit but sterilisation it's a bit different

@Fitzydog don’t you know , economics is basically holy water for the gypsy?

I literally know of *one* monopoly that was actually successful, and that was the Standard Oil Company. But it was vertically integrated as well, so not really a good comparison to Nationalized industries or single industry monopolies

It was kind of like Amazon today, tbh. Each 'sector' was its own successful venture, bringing in revenue, subsidized by its sister ventures.

@Fitzydog the old monopolies were all highly succesful because of the pure amount they were able to do. problem was they were severe abuses of power and corrupted so much shit
being so large that the owner was still richer than jeff Bezos is right now is not a good thing
so rich that only the mansa musa and potentially Vladimir Putin are wealthier than you

Well, "corruption" is a loose word, seeing as there weren't any regulations they were subverting at the time

And thus the classical liberal becomes a beautiful ~~~butterfly~~~ social democrat

@Deleted User I never claimed to be one
I said I was a social liberal

Imagine my shock

And that was just a meme from before

I'm a classical liberal

Change My Mind

#NotTrueLiberalism

Here's a nice comparison

@Deleted User @Fitzydog HR 676 is not socialized medicine, but rather, a nationalized healthcare insurance system, something Progressives have been advocating for over 100 years. See, for example, the Progressive Party platform of 1912, as well as the Progressive Party platform of 1948. And what do we get from the Democrats? Incrementalism, their euphemism for what they used to call gradualism, until Martin Luther King pointed out that it is nothing but a tranquilizing drug. How much more incremental or gradual do they want it to be, when the idea is over an hundred years old? Anyway, medical professionals have supported this bill, which defies the claim that they won't be getting paid, that they will be slaves of the government, or some other shit like that which right-wingers have spewed in their opposition to this idea, because they believe it is socialized medicine, having not taken the time to read the bill.

It's Progressive, Liberal, Conservative

Change my mind

> not socialized medicine, but rather, a nationalized healthcare insurance system

lol wut

Assuming you earned £50k a year, and you go out and buy your pal a pint for £4, you wouldn't even think about would you? 6 pints later and you still would be happy paying.

Conservatives have never said they won't get paid. Hell, it's the opposite tbh

On that scale (using Bezos' net worth which is flawed but for illustration) for Jeff each pint would cost £13.2 million