• GBU_28@lemm.ee
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    7 months ago

    It costs a 1000. Government programs make it 80. And that’s good.

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      7 months ago

      Our insurance system IS the government program. The government negotiates prices with the manufacturer. This is also the reason we have drug shortages. Cheaper drugs get re-exported legally by third parties to countries with higher prices. Abbvie straight up made a system where their new drugs would be delivered personally to the individual patient via a personal code to circumvent what happened to Humira.

      Tresiba, Insulatard, Actrapid and a couple of other insulins, as well as antibiotics like Augmentin (which is in short supply to begin with) also suffered from re-export until the government issued a temporary ban.

      The wholesale companies’ response? Stockpile and wait for the ban to expire.

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        7 months ago

        Yeah I’m aware. I’m just saying, someone is paying the bill