True, but it's similar in that your reckless choices are mitigated by the future cost to you, personally.
Pelican, sflnole thinks you shouldn’t be able to afford your life saving medication because other people make bad diet choices.
It is, for the most part. I'm not sure what % of type 2 patients inherited their disease, but I'd go out on a limb to say most developed the illness due to diet.
No, but I think type 2 diabetes is mostly preventable and reckless diets/lifestyles contribute to demand for treatment, which affects the price of treatment.
I can't find any sales data online, but I have to reiterate an earlier point: if a company can increase revenue with volume, that is more preferable to raising the price of the product.
When you have a market that literally depends on your product to live supply and demand aren't really relevant
Wouldn't it be fucked up if some dude can sit in his apartment all day, eating 12 hot pockets a day, then using up medical treatment that could have gone towards someone whose illness was 100% not preventable?
You don’t have the foundation of knowledge necessary to make the leaps you are making. You don’t understand the diseases and their management and the implications of holding type 1 kids hostage in an effort to force behavior changes in a population of people that isn’t diabetic. Your thinking is dumb and poorly informed.
It's entirely different when demand is largely dependent on skipping lunch because you had 5 pancakes for breakfast.
I mean I guess you could be right, but the idea of a big business with resources not being able to scale a commodity production seems like a stretch. It may have more to do with unwillingness to because if they scale the production and then lose the patent they have all of that excess capacity that may be very specific to a particular drug, but I would think they could make changes to accommodate for new drugs.
no because in my world both would be able to get the medicine. Their ability to pay wouldn’t have shit to do with their ability to get life saving medicine. Not dying shouldn’t be tied to your bank account.
That's an entirely different argument. We started out arguing about price gouging, now we're making a moral case for keeping prices down Either way, keeping prices artificially down creates a scarcity, which would lead to the same outcome: people who need the treatment go without...
Health care is one of the few “service” industries that haven’t felt the forces of fee or price compression. it has nothing to do with market forces supply and demand or whatever is going on in the last few pages here. It has everything do with the grip they have on Washington.
I don't think healthcare should be profitable, but I do feel like we need to find a way to incentivize people to make the right choices that require less use of our healthcare resources. My opinion in this specific case is that the higher cost of insulin is likely due to the increasing demand for it (from type 2 patients), which I feel is preventable.
Oh my god who cares you means-testing loser. My company does this by forcing people to earn a certain number of points in order to get a discount on their insurance premiums. They’ve even rolled it out to spouses who are on the plan. Everyone hates it and figures out the easiest way to cheese the system.
Except it doesn’t. Did you miss that part? 90% of people wait until the deadline before open enrollment to get all the points they need. Some folks have made automated scripts to make it go faster. It’s another box to check and hoop to jump through.
I was going to drive recklessly on a motorcycle but then I thought about the surgical cost of removing an impaled fence post from my chest and made a better lifestyle choice.
i like when people decide to pick fights on topics they show with one sentence they don't have any evidence to support themselves or knowledge of the issue especially when it involves arguing with lets just say experts in their field
Shut the fuck up. Insulin production supply is kept artificially low by the 3 manufacturers and the demand isn't the number of people taking it so much as it is that diabetics' bodies demand it if the diabetic wants to live. This isn't pork bellies, you shaft.
You think companies would rather increase revenue by ramping up production and spending more money when they can simply raise price at their current production levels/cost. In what economic model? You're a dildo.