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California attempting to legislate on drug pricing 7 years 9 months ago #18340

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The line in here that they are investigating if there is a market failure- well yes, there is, investigation shouldn't take long:

capitalandmain.com/latest-news/issues/po...t/drug-pricing-0620/
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California attempting to legislate on drug pricing 7 years 9 months ago #18341

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"Something is rotten in the State of Denmark"

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California attempting to legislate on drug pricing 7 years 9 months ago #18345

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Thank you for posting this Hazel. :) Way too much Big Pharma money in the pockets of California (and every other flavor of) legislators, I'm afraid.

That state's resources, like every other US state, are far too finite to support universal access to treatment at even a fraction of the (cough, cough) discounted rates.

So, the politicians will probably just glance around to make sure no one is looking, and stick the dirty money in their bottomless pockets as they always do. State and private Insurance companies will continue to waitlist everyone who is not at the very threshold of deaths door, raise rates to astronomical levels for tax payers and private payers, and the rate of new infection will continue to outstrip the rate of cure by several orders of magnitude.

If I sound a bit cynical it is because I am. I don't put a lot of faith in government, any government, because it is always bought and paid for by the highest bidder. If we do get a breakthrough here in the US, it is likely to occur in a poor state, or in a place like Vermont where the usual rules sometimes don't apply, or through the courts and the rulings of activist judges.

The real breakthrough for Americans, and everyone else in the world is happening right here and now, today, through you and I, through the work Dr. Freeman is doing day in and day out, and through the movement he has engendered worldwide. Its success is measured in lives redeemed from despair, breakthrough EOT and SVR results one after the other, cures and miracles which happen here on a daily basis, for all the world to see .... all in spite of Big Pharma, and their insatiably greedy lap dogs.

If we have learned anything from this journey it is that we must look to ourselves, and only to ourselves for the way forward. What is happening here in this place is unique upon the earth, and sooner or later (I fully believe), the entire world will take notice.
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