You're conflating the cost of manufacturing with all the other costs of operating a pharma company. R&D, legal, marketing, accounting. It's way easier and cheaper to sell something that someone else designed. That's not to say it isn't overpriced but it's not that simple.
And cause her to feel shame? I let her have her dignity.
Marketing is another part of the pharma industry that most of the modern world doesn't need - drug advertisements aren't a thing in much of the world outside of the USA.
Sure, no disagreement. But it's not really the point of my post.
I love watching the drug TV ads. The visuals are great. The people look so happy and healthy. It might be a relatively old woman and man, but they look so happy and healthy. The weather looks good. The world looks so great. But then if you listen to what they're saying, you'll hear how terrible the medicine is. The audio will mainly be warnings.
Just pointing out another thing that drives healthcare cost up in general. A lot of Americans are surprised to hear that even in culturally similar places like Australia and the UK people aren't bombarded by drug ads.
American here, can't remember the last time I've seen a drug ad either... they are only played on certain media to certain audiences.
The term is “price caps” and in the USA the business guys brand this as communism very effectively. Us Americans don’t know what communism is anymore, but we know it is the worst thing there is, so it won’t ever happen. Pharma lobbyists and super PACs will convince voters that price caps equate to bread lines.
It's funny cuz here when Facebook marketplace first started, we used to call it "black market", not too sure if it's a local thing or no lol
Right, yeah I have no clue honestly why we called it that way over here aha
I would like to see what the disposition of this case is and what she was actually charged with in addition to “impersonating a liscensed professional” and “money laundering”. The fact she was charged by local law enforcement and not Federal raises questions for me as well. Seems like a po-dung operation.
The US more strongly follows free market principles than most countries. We also have one of the highest gross domestic product (gdp) per capita (gin the world. No country with a population over 10 million people has a higher gdp per capita. I do, however, have trouble defending a healthcare system which spends so much more person than other advanced healthcare systems and doesn't produce great results.
GDP per capita doesn’t mean much when half of the wealth is held by 2.5% of the population.
There's some truth in that, but the US is still vastly ahead when we take median income for instance.
These stats are ridiculous because they’re post-tax. Which means don’t account for all the health care spending we are discussing here in the USA that doesn’t happen in other wealthy countries (where their taxes cover much of it, so have been backed out of these figures for them and not for USA). A proper accounting for this would certainly move the US down the list. Not to mention all the other government services and subsidies that regular folks receive in other OECD countries and don’t happen in the USA.
It looks like it stops at $50,000 as well. I don’t know how anyone could live off of that, unless they are in SE Asia or somewhere similarly inexpensive.
I urge extreme caution before selling any peptides. At least if you sell them with the undestanding that that they’ll be injected into humans, you’re clearly violating federal law and the law of many states. If you want to sell “research peptides” when you know there is a good chance that they’ll be used on people, I recommend talking to a lawyer first who will advise you on what you must avoid doing. You should probably find a lawyer who advises other domestic places that sell research peptides. I am an attorney but am unqualified to give actual legal advice in this area.
Yet there is reason that Russia and China have given up on following Communist economic principles. Cuba and North Korea have stayed true to Communism. People who belonged to formerly Commibisy countries don’t appear to be clamoring for a return to Communist. The only thing worse than being exploited by Capitalists is not being exploited by Capitalists.
lol and here you have it folks, the communism fear mongering I was talking about. At no point did I say communism was good. I said price caps aren’t communism but that interested parties will try to convince you that they (or any other component of rational healthcare reform) are because it is a scary word with the weight of history behind it, and I pointed out some very flawed stats that y’all were throwing around.
The amount of government subsidies provided to corporations are fairly strongly outside of free market principles. We take a very active hand in picking winners and losers in the market.
Are government funded police forces communism? Fire departments? Libraries? Public education?
We have no advertisers for drugs. Most get to know about a new drug by the dr who is writing you the medication and maybe word of mouth from family and friends
Yep do it. The US should charge 50k usd for one ozempic pen. I bet they would if they could get it to sell at that price …
I don’t think anyone on here is really trying to sell this stuff, but there are hundreds, if not thousands of companies in the US selling peptides openly and they don’t appear to be going anywhere. The lesson to be learned is to only purchase things for personal use.
