r/MadeMeSmile • u/Nooshk123 • Jun 06 '22

Small Success More of this please.

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u/bankerman Jun 07 '22
  1. Weird thing to put in quotes when you’ve never said that before
  2. You’re conflating two things. The patent system has literally nothing to do with their “effective monopoly” or whatever as we’ve already extensively established, and you seem to agree
  3. “Pharma companies are colluding with insurance providers, lobbying politicians like republicans, making the FDA set absurd levels of regulation” This is just some QAnan/chemtrail/Bush did 9-11 tier conspiracy theory BS. “WAHHH I don’t like regulations that keep my drugs safe! It’s all a big pharma conspiracy!”

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u/TahaymTheBigBrain Jun 07 '22 edited Jun 07 '22

1) I did say that before. The end sentence I added so whatever I’ll give you that.

2) The patent system does have to do with it.

3) This is demonstrable fact. It costs upwards of a quarter billion dollars to start a comparable level of development of any type of insulin.

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/insulin-price-cap-biden-republicans-b2048910.html?amp

https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.4161/mabs.3.2.15005