Anonymous #1 2w

Imagine being this fucking cucked.

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Anonymous #1 2w

Anyone this interested in watching their country get fucked in front of them must also want their girlfriend to be fucked in front of them too.

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Anonymous mushy.the.mushroom 2w

Why are you being so incredibly petty and engaging in attacking someone’s character with 0 evidence instead of the post?

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Anonymous #2 2w

Why don’t they provide evidence that competition brings down the price of drugs? Theyre the one that made that claim with literally zero backing. What, do you want me to go out and find contradictory evidence for this loser to ignore?

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Anonymous mushy.the.mushroom 2w

Are… Are you serious? Wait have you ever taken an Econ class? I didn’t know people that didn’t understand competition in the market place existed over the age of 18. I must study you

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Anonymous #2 2w

You literally just complained about me attacking someone’s character without evidence and it’s literally the first thing you do. No buddy. Provide evidence. Go for it.

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Anonymous #2 2w

Unless of course… you can’t?

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Anonymous mushy.the.mushroom 2w

So what I’m doing is different because I’m criticizing you on your apparently incredible lack of economic knowledge. Competitions effect on pricing is genuinely basic information. Here is an AI summary of what it is, I’m sure I can find more if you need more evidence. Please let me know if you would like a more in depth explanation.

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Anonymous #2 2w

Oh an ai overview? Damn bro you fucking got me. That’s definitely reliable and doesn’t speak to your stupidity at all.

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Anonymous mushy.the.mushroom 2w

I’m going to be serious for the future of this conversation - I will try my best not to speak down to you. I highly recommend taking a macroeconomics course at whatever college you are attending. The information you learn is very important to how our society functions.

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Anonymous #2 2w

“Here is an ai summary” Opinion fucking unvalidated holy shit

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Anonymous #2 2w

Lmao. “My evidence is an AI summary from Google” Fuck out my face that’s hilarious

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Anonymous #2 2w

*invalidated

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Anonymous mushy.the.mushroom 2w

Dude seriously - it’s a foundational principle of how free markets (like America) operate. I can find you a more in depth explanation if you’d like, but given your level of expertise a layman’s explanation was the best course of action.

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Anonymous #2 2w

Yeah man and the American free market has never made drugs inaccessibly expensive before

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Anonymous #2 2w

That’s totally never once happened lmao.

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Anonymous mushy.the.mushroom 2w

Are you ok? 😭

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Anonymous #3 2w

Yeah im fine, why, what’s up?

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Anonymous mushy.the.mushroom 2w

So actually the reason why drugs are often very expensive is because they are patented by drug companies, who then have exclusive rights to produce and sell the drug to the public. If it is a drug that is required by people to live (insulin) unethical companies will jack up the prices. Because no one else is selling it, this leads to only the extremely exploitative and unethical company’s version being the only one on the market

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Anonymous mushy.the.mushroom 2w

Dude I’m shocked that you don’t know any of this. https://bidenwhitehouse.archives.gov/cea/written-materials/2021/07/09/the-importance-of-competition-for-the-american-economy/

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Anonymous #2 2w

You’re paying 90 dollars for the single use tongue depressor from your checkup.

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Anonymous #2 2w

Free market in action baby.

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Anonymous #2 2w

Also, I love the implication that patent law and monopolies are somehow not part of the free market?

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Anonymous mushy.the.mushroom 2w

Because there isn’t enough competition in the market. It’s a root cause of a lot of issues. Note I said “a” root cause, not THE.

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Anonymous #2 2w

You know to stop monopolies we had to make the market less free, right?

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Anonymous mushy.the.mushroom 2w

You could have started by asking for evidence. What evidence would help convince you? A page from an economics textbook? Quotes from experts? A peer reviewed study? An analysis by the FDA itself?

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Anonymous #1 2w

Novolin is an older kind of insulin. That one’s totally fine, but it’s not easy to switch between insulins safely. They last for various lengths of time. The newer ones are the ones that are super pricey. This is a much more complicated issue than just “allow competition” — competition is allowed as long as it doesn’t violate a patent. That’s an issue I’m happy to explain further if you want

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Anonymous mushy.the.mushroom 2w

Patent law and monopolies are part of the free market, which is why it’s important for the government to play referee and prevent exploitation of Americans by monopolies.

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Anonymous #2 2w

Agreed. You must be anti Trump then.

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Anonymous mushy.the.mushroom 2w

Nope, not anti Trump at all. People are more complicated than good guys and bad guys, mushy. We can agree on some things, and disagree on others.

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Anonymous #2 2w

Right. Because you’re a cuck.

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Anonymous #2 2w

My point exactly. Youre anti monopoly in principle, but you support a dude who emboldens monopolies. Because you’re a cuck.

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Anonymous mushy.the.mushroom 2w

Are you just going to resort to ad hominem 😭

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Anonymous #3 2w

Isn’t that trumps whole deal, ad homs?

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Anonymous #3 2w

That’s like the one thing he does.

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Anonymous mushy.the.mushroom 2w

See, now that’s the unfounded attack on character we were talking about earlier. Also - I’m not anti monopoly in principle. Some monopolies are necessary, like a power company’s monopoly over a certain area. I think harmful monopolies should be regulated, however, to be non harmful. Also - everyone knows being a cuck is leftist-coded

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Anonymous mushy.the.mushroom 2w

…where did i say i supported him?

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Anonymous #2 2w

“I’m not a cuck I just like watching my girlfriend get fucked”

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Anonymous #2 2w

You.

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Anonymous mushy.the.mushroom 2w

Uuuuhhhhhhhhhhhhh Cope and seethe? Idk man you’re kind of just raging rn and it’s hard to take you seriously. You should put the phone down and chill out to think. Being angry at me and calling me a cuck will barely make you feel any better, and I don’t super care. You seem like you’re done pretending to be reasonable anyway, so I’m going to exit the convo. Have a nice day

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Anonymous #2 2w

Good news for you, it’s time for me to go anyway. Getting lunch with my family. You should tell your girlfriend about your fetish I’m sure she will understand lmao

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Anonymous #1 2w

This is why you can’t switch easily between insulin types btw, and not everyone is on Novolin. Novolin is NPH (aka isophane insulin). Novolog, for example, is made by the same company (Novo Nordisk, manufacturer of Ozempic). That’s insulin aspart

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Anonymous mushy.the.mushroom 2w

This is how you should have responded imo: Competition *should* bring down the cost of something, in theory. But the barrier to entry is high. Drug companies don’t want to invest the money in making cheap insulin because they won’t see a significant return on it. 90% of the insulin market is controlled by Sanofi, Eli Lilly, and Novo Nordisk, and they have two tactics that they love using: raising their prices in lockstep with each other and making small changes and patenting them, thus…

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Anonymous #3 2w

…extending their patent exclusivity

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Anonymous #3 2w

I did that shit for years, these degenerate losers don’t care.

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Anonymous #3 2w

I’m not engaging in any serious way with them, they’re not really worth my energy.

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Anonymous mushy.the.mushroom 2w

Then why are you on here 😭

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Anonymous #3 2w

I’m sorry, did you mistake the US politics yik yak for some haven of honest debate? Is that a joke?

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Anonymous #3 2w

The barrier to entry that you’re referring to is the federal approval process. We’d have significantly more competition without the FDA making it extremely difficult to enter the market.

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Anonymous #1 2w

The other is creating the infrastructure to actually make insulin. It’s not cheap to make unless you can produce it at scale, and companies like Merck tried and gave up. It’s likely that the big 3 will try to undercut your pricing if you try to compete with them https://www.fiercepharma.com/pharma/merck-ditches-biosimilar-lantus-but-will-ease-path-for-mylan-s-rival-insulin-product

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“The shitty generic meds from India will fucking kill you” lmfao please, the FDA has to inspect those facilities too before a generic gets approved for sale in the US. Most of them pass

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