The Political Thread

[Chris]

So, if I’m reading this correctly. The EO he wiped out, was ones making them cheaper. So now they will be more expensive?

Now the companies are allowed to price "based on demand" instead of pricing them to be affordable.

The demand for life saving drugs tends to be fairly high so yes they'll be more expensive

 

[Grim]

So, if I’m reading this correctly. The EO he wiped out, was ones making them cheaper. So now they will be more expensive?

He basically removed the order that made it so the government could negotiate prescription prices, so now big pharma companies will make it more expensive because they don't have to negotiate their prices.

 

[OsBlaze]

Now the companies are allowed to price "based on demand" instead of pricing them to be affordable.

The demand for life saving drugs tends to be fairly high so yes they'll be more expensive

He basically removed the order that made it so the government could negotiate prescription prices, so now big pharma companies will make it more expensive because they don't have to negotiate their prices.

Well that’s a fucking bummer. Medical care was already fucking expensive enough. A lot more people are going to die because they can’t afford their medication anymore.

 

[Boomhauer]

China isn't Socialist you dipshit

Yes it is.

Is China Socialist? - American Economic Association

Is China Socialist? by Barry Naughton. Published in volume 31, issue 1, pages 3-24 of Journal of Economic Perspectives, Winter 2017, Abstract: It has been 40 years since Deng Xiaoping broke dramatically with Maoist ideology and the Maoist variant of socialism. Since then, China has been...

www.aeaweb.org

 

[Grim]

Yes it is.

Is China Socialist? - American Economic Association

Is China Socialist? by Barry Naughton. Published in volume 31, issue 1, pages 3-24 of Journal of Economic Perspectives, Winter 2017, Abstract: It has been 40 years since Deng Xiaoping broke dramatically with Maoist ideology and the Maoist variant of socialism. Since then, China has been...

www.aeaweb.org

Brother, nobody considers China Socialist. It's an Authoritarian Capitalist country under the guise of "Communism"

 

[Chris]

That's a book asking the question you googled but not providing an answer unless you're going to tell us you own it lol in fact from the desertion it seems the answer is no

Anyway, this guy is how most people in East Texas are. That's why it's so sad he's not trolling, you can always tell exactly where he got a line fed to him from, even the ones about supporting LGBTQ people.

 

[Spitfire]

China is 'government controlled capitalism' calling it socialist in 2025 is just ignorance

 

[Grim]

Like quite literally, the "Communist Party of China" hasn't been Maoist/Marxist since the early-1990s. It's been collectively capitalist since the fall of the Soviet Union.

 

[Boomhauer]

Well that’s a fucking bummer. Medical care was already fucking expensive enough. A lot more people are going to die because they can’t afford their medication anymore.

That is another thing I disagree with Trump. Now medicine will be more expensive and guess what? More denials for life saving surgeries.

 

[Professor Booty]

Just put him on ignore like I did yesterday

 

[Boomhauer]

If you can't handle the heat, just leave. I don't ask anyone to agree with my politics.

 

[Butters]

we going back to the old days where if you get diarrhea everyone is just gonna assume you're gonna die

 

[OsBlaze]

That is another thing I disagree with Trump. Now medicine will be more expensive and guess what? More denials for life saving surgeries.

A lot of people voted for this man, because he was supposed to make things cheaper, and affordable. Not even a full 24 hours in, and he already is fucking over people with medical conditions. I definitely don’t see it being the only thing that will get more expensive. I hope I’m wrong, but I don’t have much hope there.

 

[Chris]

we going back to the old days where if you get diarrhea everyone is just gonna assume you're gonna die

Well the anti-vaccine people stopped being viewed as crazies by the Republicans when the COVID vaccine came out so now we got measles and polio coming back

 

[Grim]

But god dammit, it's them illegals that were really the problem!