OMG Politics, I'm over it already Mk III, The Search for Spock

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Here is another fine example of the US Pharma generic manufacturers using negotiated rights to make and sell old, off patent drugs at a massive profit as they are the only game in town. This is the kind of shameful bullshit that the government needs to regulate. I'd love to see it kick off with some jail time for medicare/medicaid fraud for the asshole business people that think this is OK.

https://gizmodo.com/the-price-of-this-drug-went-up-100-000-percent-since-20-1825819643
 
Tiltsta said:
Here is another fine example of the US Pharma generic manufacturers using negotiated rights to make and sell old, off patent drugs at a massive profit as they are the only game in town. This is the kind of shameful bullshit that the government needs to regulate. I'd love to see it kick off with some jail time for medicare/medicaid fraud for the asshole business people that think this is OK.

https://gizmodo.com/the-price-of-this-drug-went-up-100-000-percent-since-20-1825819643
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big pharm is the biggest clandestine ripoff in america. and big pharm pays hundreds of millions of dollars to our "representatives" (house, senate and potus) to keep it that way. health care should not be a for profit business. if your house is on fire and you call the fire department, they don't insist on a $20,000 check before they'll come save your house. and other than a handful of stories about this bullshit, the media pretty much stays clear of it. apparently they're getting paid off too.
and it has become so entrenched in our 'system', that we'll never separate these greedy assholes from all this money with anything short of a full on McCarthy-esque inquisition and death penalty punishment.
 
bsman said:
@Tiltsta - is it still true that the US and New Zealand are the only countries allowing direct-to-consumer advertising of pharmaceuticals?
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I don't know much about advertising, but my understanding is that the US and NZ are the only ones that allow it. This is just what I have heard. I find the claim kind of hard to believe as a shit ton of countries have virtually no oversight on drug sales of any kind, so I would expect it would have to be many more countries that have no restrictions on advertising. Of course, many of those are in the developing world, so it isn't clear anyone would bother with advertising campaigns in some of those markets.

I am of the opinion that direct to patient advertising of prescription medications is a thing that shouldn't exist. I don't care about OTC medication advertising being direct to consumer, but prescription drugs shouldn't be in adverts directed to anyone beyond prescribing physicians, and there it should be heavily regulated.
 
Tig said:
Yet another reason he didn't want his tax returns released.
He owes hundreds of millions to Deutsche Bank, Russian oligarchs, and Spray Tan Depot.
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These guys just put a lien on the Trump Tower in NYC:

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Tiltsta said:
I am of the opinion that direct to patient advertising of prescription medications is a thing that shouldn't exist. I don't care about OTC medication advertising being direct to consumer, but prescription drugs shouldn't be in adverts directed to anyone beyond prescribing physicians, and there it should be heavily regulated.
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^^^^^YES!!!
 
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(even tho it's a year and a half late)

Connecticut OKs Bill Pledging Electoral Votes To National Popular Vote Winner
https://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo...-vote-winner?utm_medium=RSS&utm_campaign=news

"Connecticut is poised to commit its electoral votes to whichever U.S. presidential candidate wins the nation's popular vote — regardless of who wins the state.

By embracing the plan, Connecticut's General Assembly gave new momentum to a push to change how Americans elect their president.

Ten states and the District of Columbia are already in a compact to pool their electoral votes and pledge them to the popular-vote winner. With Connecticut added, the compact's voting power would rise to 172 — fewer than 100 electoral votes away from the 270-vote majority that decides the presidential contest."

"In addition to Connecticut, the other jurisdictions in the pact are: California, Hawaii, Illinois, Maryland, Massachusetts, New Jersey, New York, Rhode Island, Vermont and Washington state, along with Washington, D.C."

add 2 or 3 more states to this compact, and the E.C. will be, for all practical purposes, rendered null and void.
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Help!I'maRock! said:
This has no possibility to backfire whatsoever. :lol:
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how do you mean?
the E.C. clearly isn't functioning the way it was intended, that is, to stop a madman from becoming president.
if congress won't either correct it or abolish it, then the states can change their voting laws to just go around it.
 
mongooz said:
how do you mean?
the E.C. clearly isn't functioning the way it was intended, that is, to stop a madman from becoming president.
if congress won't either correct it or abolish it, then the states can change their voting laws to just go around it.
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So these are generally Democratic states figuring that a Democrat will win the popular vote and a Republican won't. We've now seen it twice in the recent past. What happens when a Democrat wins in one of their states, but a Republican wins the popular vote nationwide? They'll all just vote for the Republican? That would make for a massive electoral landslide. What happens when that state isn't Vermont or Washington, but there's some crazy outcome like California or New York, and their dozens of electoral votes?

IMO, unless all 50 states are on board, this has the potential to create both a constitutional crisis and a mess of a presidential election.
 
Help!I'maRock! said:
So these are generally Democratic states figuring that a Democrat will win the popular vote and a Republican won't. We've now seen it twice in the recent past. What happens when a Democrat wins in one of their states, but a Republican wins the popular vote nationwide? They'll all just vote for the Republican? That would make for a massive electoral landslide. What happens when that state isn't Vermont or Washington, but there's some crazy outcome like California or New York, and their dozens of electoral votes?

IMO, unless all 50 states are on board, this has the potential to create both a constitutional crisis and a mess of a presidential election.
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maybe it's that kind of mess that it will take for congress to act. :shrug:
 
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