Fucking what? Am I going to receive a check for hundreds of dollars next time I pick up my Adderall?
He’s so fucking stupid it makes my head hurt.
You understand basic math and percentages. You’re definitely not a Trump voter!
For them this is a huuuuuuge win 🫠
What a fucking joke of a country… It’s absurdity beyond satire.
There was a very very small window that America wasn’t a joke, and it ended like 80 years ago.
People need to understand shit didn’t break 5 seconds before they noticed or well never fix it.
trump just doesn’t have the manners and vocab to hide how bad it is.
If we don’t start thinking on a longer timeline, we’re fucked
The system is designed to keep the working class too busy and tired to think beyond tonight’s dinner, or maybe tomorrow’s.
That’s our economic system not our healthcare…
And it’s a real thing, resource scarcity as a child changes the timeline you think on. You know how everyone laughed at the people doing the “chase glitch” which was just check/wire fraud and incredibly easy to prosecute?
They seemed stupid because obviously there was going to be consequences, but resource scarcity means tomorrow’s problems aren’t real problems yet.
If you don’t know if you’ll be alive in aweek, consequences in a month literally don’t factor into your thinking. That’s why Pay Day loans and credit cards are such big business.
It is completely normal, it’s how our brains are wired, and for 99.999999999% of human existence it was a solid strategy.
But the wealthy exploit it.
Let’s not pretend like these predatory businesses and schemes are naturally occurring either. There was a deliberate and concerted effort to create the conditions of scarcity and demand for these shitty short term solutions.
it was a solid strategy
For 99% of human history if someone deliberately tried to create conditions of poverty for the majority of a population they would be deposed by that population. We have been turned into livestock.
Reconstruction held promise, until it was basically squashed by racists.
There was a very very small window that America wasn’t a joke, and it ended like 80 years ago.
What was so fantastic about the US 80 years ago?
FDR
if we were smarter we’d be rioting.
Well they put a clown at the helm sooooooo…
I don’t want to live here anymore and I’m scared.
I share your sentiment.
Add me to that list. oh wait don’t. because lists and where that goes.
Depends who else is on the list
Prepare for the worst and get armed and know how to use your weapon.
I don’t want to fight anyone. Mostly because there’s nobody and nothing here worth dying over.
It’s to help make sure you don’t die if you have to fight. If you’re in danger it’s always better to be armed (and competent), even if you’re running.
Yeah, it’s true. I just went to get my son’s inhaler, and the pharmacy paid me 14 times what I normally pay them for it. Thank you, Mr. President.
Lol.
I grew up in the 90s. If someone had told me America was roughly 20 years out from letting a felon rapist pedophile roll over the U.S. while it just stood by and watched I simply would have dismissed it as absurd.
Such a comically pathetic nation.
You know how in the Final Destination movies, when someone escapes death, then death incessantly tries to take them by other means.
COVID was supposed to take a lot of old people, but we wore masks.
You grew up with clinton and Bush and didnt quite see a trend there?
In their defense I don’t think most people knew what trends to look for since such skills are attached to historical literacy the long suffering child of the humanities. History ain’t boring the way it’s taught in elementary, middle, and highschool is shit, rather than focusing on the push and pull of history, society, culture, and economics they focus on ye olde facts that have the same general depth as one of my ancestor trade ledgers. There’s a tale in said facts but it takes a good bit of skill to weave it back together.
you forgot mentally unstable
The full article on Forbes gives some terms more or less guaranteeing that companies will simply stop distributing in the US. Or raise global pricing to match US levels.
Filthy rich old fuck on meds wants low prices.
So you go to the pharmacy and they give you a pile of adderal and, like $2000? Way better than socialism.
If y’all thought you had an illegal immigrant problem before, lemme tell ya…
I guess I need to contact my pharmacy and find out where my check is for the drugs. According to Trump they owe me a lot of money.
So now they pay people absurd amounts to take drugs?
He’s a pedo who failed math class, especially real life math class like this.
Trump cannot and will not lower drug prices. That’s just another lie… Oh, how about the Eppstein files? He could certainly publish those, but he won’t for obvious reasons – almost as obvious as the reasons for not lowering drug prices.
Well he certainly cannot lower them 1500%
You mean you’re NOT getting a fat check every time you pick up your prescription?
Ok, but what about 1499%?
He’ll probably lower them 1488%.
But he certainly can raise prices by 1500% once this pedo thing is over — probably a Freudian slip — he will probably do everything humanly possible to increase prices by that percentage since the lobby offered him and his cronies good terms.
He added, “We want the same prices Europe gets, we want the same prices other country gets.”
Europeans pay very little for healthcare because they use a system designed to provide affordable healthcare and not to enrich the wealthy…
Here in the States, we call that system communism.
Better Red than dead!
Fuck the EDF!
sorry Red Faction: Guerrilla has irrevocably changed my associations of certain phrases. Damn good game also my first PS3 game.
They were supposed to save us! Time to burn it all down.
Strap corporate made MOAB to martian Toyota Hylux
“We want the benefits without the ‘communism’, please and thank you.” -Capitalism-brained Americans
It’s a single entity that buys all the drugs and distributes it out where it’s needed. It’s called buying power and is very effective in negotiating a deal. They also allow generic drugs in most cases, so the patients and hospitals have options and are not held for ransom by big pharma.
“But if the “single entity” does not buy enough (because the government cut the budget), THEN PEOPLE DIE!” - something I vaguely remember from debates one time the US considered possibly offering something approaching centralized health care.
I don’t know how the fuck it works. I assume the “single entity” just buys more and the government doesn’t cut the budget?
A real country informa a pharmaceutical what they will pay per dose for certain drugs, and if no company will agree then they will open their own labs to produce the drugs at cost. Free marker capitalism is incompatible with human decency
Thank you!
Free marker capitalism is incompatible with human decency
Very true.
Well, MAGA followers can’t do the math any better than trump himself. My thoughts … two months from now drug prices went up, the difference flows to DJT and his inner circle while MAGA celebrate the new prices
The chocolate ration is being raised to twenty grams per week.
Ok but surely they know the difference between price go up and price go down? It’s astounding people will probably believe this.
I thought this was an onion article. Then I realized it’s not……
MAGA supporters will believe him because they don’t understand percentages.
“ya mean per penny???”
3500% percent of them will believe him. The other 3% are rinos.
They also like rapists, as long as that rapist wears red.
