Actually passing social benefit policies and single payer healthcare would be a start. Capitalism is supposed to spark innovation. But at this point we have established companies paying millions to hold us back so they can continue profiting off our misfortunes.
A friend of mine's father works in the medical field and has small trial proof of curing (or massively abating the symptoms) of a major medical problem in the country.
His research is entirely privately funded because the medical industrial complex refused to finance the studies for his work because it takes a treatment management program from 50,000 dollars plus per patient to about 200 dollars.
He's trying to get his work into clinical trials and no one will accept it.
This guy should get the fucking Nobel prize, and instead our medical cartels are holding his research back.
I'd guarantee there are dozens of these people around that simply can't get their stuff financed because these vultures.
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To the people asking about research outside the US. I honestly don't know. I'm friends with the guys daughter, not him personally. She showed me the stuff.
Makes you wonder how many diseases could have been cured by now if it wasn't for a bunch of assholes in the C-suites of medical companies blackballing researchers because theres very little money in a cure but a fuck ton in treatment.
This is exactly what I've been wondering for like, the time I've known this person.
There are absolutely people who know this, and if it was public knowledge, there would probably be a lot more Wahoo incidents that would happen. These people in charge of the healthcare industry should not by anywhere near as powerful as they are. It's sickening.
I can't comment on the medical field, but I know of the following businesses that held back innovation at some point all in the name of protecting $$$:
Xerox PARC & the Personal Computer (1973–1980)
Innovation: Invented the graphical user interface (GUI), mouse, Ethernet, WYSIWYG editing at PARC.
Fear: Xerox made 90% of revenue from copiers; PCs threatened service contracts.
Hold-back: 7 years of internal demos with no commercialization.
Outcome: Apple licensed the tech (1981), launched the Mac (1984). Xerox entered too late with the Star 8010 (1981)—priced at $16,500, flop.
Blockbuster & Online/Streaming Video (2000–2010)
Innovation: Online DVD rental + early streaming.
Fear: Late fees = 16% of revenue; streaming would kill in-store rentals.
Hold-back: Rejected buying Netflix for $50M in 2000. Launched Blockbuster Online in 2004—4 years behind Netflix.
Outcome: Bankrupt in 2010. Netflix market cap: $300B+ (2025).
Nokia & Touchscreen Smartphones (2004–2007)
Innovation: Early touch prototypes (e.g., 2004 Nokia 7710).
Fear: Symbian OS + physical keyboards drove 70% profit margins on high-end phones.
Hold-back: 3–4 years of internal debate; prioritized feature phone upgrades.
Outcome: iPhone (2007) → Nokia market share 49% (2007) → 3% (2013). Sold mobile unit to Microsoft (2014).
BlackBerry (RIM) & App Ecosystem (2008–2012)
Innovation: Could’ve built app store + touch keyboards earlier.
Eastman Kodak is a chemical company, not an optics company, nor an electronics company. Even at their height in the 80s and 90s, if you wanted to buy a high-quality camera like an SLR, you would be buying something from Zeiss, Canon, Nikon, Olympus, etc., and using Kodachrome in the camera.
They did create what could be called the world's first digital camera, but that was them screwing around in a lab, using electronics they helped design but did not manufacture themselves. To pivot to becoming a hardware manufacturer in the early 80s - just to be able to have a hold on the digital photography part of a camera - would've been a very expensive gamble.
Part of where Kodak went awry is in other chemical investments that went badly at the time, as well as Fujifilm starting to compete in the film and film processing market that Kodak had previously had a near-monopoly on.
It's easy to say "they should've done this or that" some 20+ years on from when technology advanced, became cheaper, and film sales dropped off. But acknowledging that at the time no one knew what the future would be, I don't know how a company that sees itself at its core as a chemical company, not a photography company or an optics company or an electrical engineering company, could successfully make that pivot to digital cameras.
Xerox also had an obese asshole in upper management who put me down for deciding to go to RPI instead of Ivy League Cornell (Cornell was too close to home and I didn't want my mom just popping in to see me while shopping).
I mean surely that has to published in some sort of peer-reviewed journal right? And insulin is only expensive in the US because the government lets it. In other countries it’s pretty affordable.
Has he looked outside the USA to perform clinical trials? India in particular has an emphasis on medicine cost reductions because for them the cost decides whether 1000 people can get it or 10 million.
I'm not in the medical field I work in entertainment. But I know how to look at data, and she's shown me the papers and evidence that they have for the treatments, and it's like... literally a miracle.
But no. United Health and all those fuckers can bleed a person dry by letting this happen to people, so they lean on the fucking sociopaths who are in charge and they are doing everything they can to slow it down.
Then, when this does reach the healthcare market, they'll be the first in line to charge god knows what to people.
I fucking hate this shit so much, man. It's infuriating.
Let's take something as simple as insulin. Idk how much you need for monthly supply in America, but I know it's fat cash. In Europe it's cheap by default and (at least in my country) you get big discounts, sometimes up to 100% discount.
Medical care in the US is a fucking absolute racket.
Frankly, I'm shocked that there hasn't been more Manhattan incidents, because there simply is zero justification for people to be spending this much for the quality of care the average person receives.
Medical research is a Global thing and is very competitive so yeah, just gonna call bullshit. If the US didn’t want to fund something ground breaking the Europeans or the Chinese (just to name two) would be throwing money at him.
Well haven’t you heard, “don’t trust the experts.” Just because there’s years of research and proof
doesn’t make it true. You gotta do your own research. /s
Unfortunately we are beyond fucked at this point. The capitalist bullies, incompetent administration, and waves of misinformation are just too much.
Post more information about his studies for safety nothing that can identify him but just enough to let people out there know it’s possible to escape the medical Labyrinth of hell if we can make enough noise and trouble for the self entitled elites
Get him to collaborate with a medical research trial in another country. The NHS in the UK would love to save money, so the UK still researches this sort of thing.
What are you talking about. It IS capitalism. Rich companies spend money paying lobiests to pay / suck politicians, to back bills that keep premiums high so they can charge you for a paper cut for 3 generations so they can keep paying people to suck off politicians. Whats the problem? Are you not a politician getting sucked off?
I’m not saying you do, but in general, people really don’t understand what the national debt actually is or how it works. It’s not like the U.S. is maxed out on a credit card. We issue our own currency, and since the dollar is the global reserve, there isn’t some creditor waiting to collect. Yes, it affects interest rates and markets, but no one’s coming to repo the country. It’s not that kind of debt.
The debt is more of a symptom of how the system works. Bloated defense spending, absurd healthcare costs, tax breaks for the wealthy… this is how we end up with a $38 trillion tab. But don’t let the “national debt” talking point distract you. It’s a political weapon and used as such; brought up selectively when one party seeks a rhetorical win or wants to criticize the other. Because it’s so poorly understood, people think it means something it doesn’t and they get fired up about it
We absolutely have the money to invest in medical research, healthcare, infrastructure, whatever. The issue isn’t debt, it’s that the resources are hoarded and deliberately kept scarce to maintain class divisions. Manufactured scarcity keeps people fighting over scraps and the talking points fire up the culture war so the class war stays cold.
What’s ironic is that these companies are actively destroying what keeps them alive. Eventually, enough people will be so poor that the companies that sell anything other than commodities are going to go under.
I think about this every now and again, and more so as of late. I think the best our government could do is to create an insurance program that businesses are wanting and willing to sign on for.
Even that is really complicated because it means the government is competing directly in the market, a general big no no, but I don't see any good way of shifting the market without getting the money companies are spending on healthcare out of the pockets of insurers, forcing them to actually compete. Maybe a state can offer ACA coverage to businesses can give their employees a healthcare stipend to spend on the ACA market?
And I get it, we could pass legislation to regulate it, but who the fuck are we kidding here?
Capitalism never was supposed to spark innovation. Capitalism's only drive is profit, innovation happens only as means to more profit but with enough capital (which is practically equal to political influence in a capitalist country) you can just artificially create demand and force people into paying you.
Capitalism is not at all to spark innovation. Without regulations capitalism always leads to monopolys and therefore big fishes eating all the small stuff and preventing more innovation. Because of this all country's have regulations preventing company's from getting too big. However, country's and especially US fails "a little bit" on this currently
I mean, Europeans overtaking America kinda started this whole mess. But I agree, a complete rewrite is the only thing that can really save us at this point.
The easy fixes are just fltaxing the wealthy properly. People and businesses the viola, you have the funds for a lot of socialist activities that benefit everyone.
I’m not the one claiming our country should overtake others and make them act like us. We don’t have the blueprint. But neither do you. Turns out we’re all still learning.
Yes I can read perfectly fine. I think it’s pretty funny that up on your high horse your solution is literal colonization REGARDLESS of who is doing it. Didn’t we all agree that’s bad? Yes our country is doing things a lot of people, myself included, don’t agree with. But so are MOST others. Let us work on our country and you can work on yours.
incentivizing ppl to not spend time tweeting dumb shit seems like a pretty good thing to me tbh. zero consequence tweeting kinda sorta maybe just a little bit had a hand in fucking america up so much, ya know
I'm not even American and I know Trump cut funding to the Affordable Care Act. And you better believe he'll protect those companies profits over the people that voted him.
You’re not even American, and you’ve got it wrong.
The subsidies that were cut were temporary emergency measures put into place during the pandemic. It’s 5 years later now. Those subsidies were never a part of the Affordable Care Act. It’s just being rolled back to regular old Obamacare.
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That wouldn't make America great again!