I'm surprised there's not an inflation thread yet
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The purpose of America's top 1% richest is to take as much money as the lower 99% will allow. Surveys comparing countries show that the 1% are getting better each year at achieving their purpose:
US spends most on health care but has worst health outcomes among high-income countries, new report finds
The United States spends more on health care than any other high-income country but still has the lowest life expectancy at birth and the highest rate of people with multiple chronic diseases, according to a new report from The Commonwealth Fund, an independent research group.
US healthcare covid file
New poll shows jump in adults who rate the quality of US health care as 'poor'
The report, released Tuesday, also says that compared with peer nations, the US has the highest rates of deaths from avoidable or treatable causes and the highest maternal and infant death rates.
https://www.cnn.com/2023/01/31/health/us-health-care-spending-global-p
erspective/index.html
Poorer service and higher prices are exactly what is expected from a healthcare system designed to make the top 1% richest Americans even richer, year by year.
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SECOND misstates the reason for high prices. If producers could simply charge whatever got into their heads, bread would be $500 dollar a loaf and gasoline would be $599/gallon.
SECOND: Sellers know it perfectly well, and you should, too, that prices are constrained by how much money the buyers have, not by the greed of sellers.
SECOND, previous postQuote:
Biden had zero control over those prices (remember, it is Europe) but the oil/gas companies had complete control.
That wasn't the first or even the third time that you posted that producers are in complete control and can charge whatever they want.
Your brain, SECOND... it's broken.
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If we did not MAKE someone poor - William Blake
Don't forget that in the same breath he will also blame non-rich people for being non-rich too.
Second is what happens when you have no core beliefs coupled with a complete lack of a moral compass.
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Quote:I also blame fat, lazy, drunk and stupid people for being:
Originally posted by 6IXSTRINGJACK:
Don't forget that in the same breath he will also blame non-rich people for being non-rich too.
Second is what happens when you have no core beliefs coupled with a complete lack of a moral compass.
1) fat
2) lazy
3) drunk (or hungover)
4) stupid
5) voting for Trump and hoping that if Trump were President all their problems would be solved without ever having to go to work again.
6ix, everybody knows which way your "moral compass" points. You were particularly interested in The Fair Tax Law. “Everybody gets a check, and so you’ve got the basis for the modern definition of European socialism, which is that everybody gets a basic income and work is an option.”
https://thehill.com/policy/finance/3821761-heres-what-you-need-to-know
-about-the-gop-bill-to-abolish-the-tax-code/
Besides the free money for 6ix, all Federal Taxes are abolished on individuals. Since Trump does not pay taxes, Trumptards don't think they should pay, either. I hope Trump is the GOP Presidential candidate. I hope he endorses The Fair Tax Law. I suspect he won't win the votes from people who don't cheat on their taxes.
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Originally posted by second:Quote:I also blame fat, lazy, drunk and stupid people for being:
Originally posted by 6IXSTRINGJACK:
Don't forget that in the same breath he will also blame non-rich people for being non-rich too.
Second is what happens when you have no core beliefs coupled with a complete lack of a moral compass.
1) fat
2) lazy
3) drunk (or hungover)
4) stupid
5) voting for Trump and hoping that if Trump were President all their problems would be solved without ever having to go to work again.
6ix, everybody knows which way your "moral compass" points. You were particularly interested in The Fair Tax Law. “Everybody gets a check, and so you’ve got the basis for the modern definition of European socialism, which is that everybody gets a basic income and work is an option.”
https://thehill.com/policy/finance/3821761-heres-what-you-need-to-know
-about-the-gop-bill-to-abolish-the-tax-code/
Besides the free money for 6ix, all Federal Taxes are abolished on individuals. Since Trump does not pay taxes, Trumptards don't think they should pay, either. I hope Trump is the GOP Presidential candidate. I hope he endorses The Fair Tax Law. I suspect he won't win the votes from people who don't cheat on their taxes.
The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at
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Your opinions regarding my opinions mean nothing because you are a braindead cunt.
Get the the fuck out of here already and go to Twitter where people are as dumb as you are.
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Quote:That is your Superiority Complex talking: The Psychology of Donald Trump
Originally posted by 6IXSTRINGJACK:
Your opinions regarding my opinions mean nothing because you are a braindead cunt.
Get the the fuck out of here already and go to Twitter where people are as dumb as you are.
When I was a teenager, my therapist explained, “A superiority complex always covers up an inferiority complex.” Arrogance or narcissism is not born from an experience of being overvalued or coddled, but rather from being not seen or heard. The defenses we associate with narcissistic personality disorder are formed to protect the individual from a sense of being small, powerless, and invisible.
More at https://drbradreedy.com/brad-reedy-blog/a-therapists-thoughts-on-donal
d-trump-and-how-to-make-a-difference/
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Originally posted by second:Quote:That is your Superiority Complex talking
Originally posted by 6IXSTRINGJACK:
Your opinions regarding my opinions mean nothing because you are a braindead cunt.
Get the the fuck out of here already and go to Twitter where people are as dumb as you are.
No. That is me being superior to you in every measurable metric imaginable.
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Quote:President Donald Trump again referred to himself as a "stable genius" while also touting himself as "great looking" in a tweet Thursday mocking some of the leading Democratic candidates hoping to unseat him. In the middle of a morning tweet storm that touched on everything from the census to the Pledge of Allegiance, Trump said that all news media outlets would all be endorsing him "at some point, one way or the other." He made that prediction based on his belief that they will "quickly go out of business for lack of credibility, or approval, from the public" when "I ultimately leave office in six years or maybe 10 or 14 (just kidding)."
Originally posted by 6IXSTRINGJACK:
No. That is me being superior to you in every measurable metric imaginable.
https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/elections/2019/07/11/trum
p-again-calls-himself-stable-genius/1703154001/
What greatness happened to genius Trump? Same as what happened to 6ix. Nothing is what happens to inferior guys hiding behind a superiority complex.
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A story about how the top 1% gouge the hell out of the other 99%: Over the past 20 years, AbbVie increased Humira’s price about 30 times, most recently by 8 percent this month. Since the end of 2016, the drug’s list price has gone up 60 percent to over $80,000 a year, according to SSR Health, a research firm.
How a Drug Company Made $114 Billion since 2016 by Gaming the U.S. Patent System By Rebecca Robbins, Jan. 28, 2023
AbbVie for years delayed competition for its blockbuster drug Humira, at the expense of patients and taxpayers. The monopoly is about to end next week.
In 2016, a blockbuster drug called Humira was poised to become a lot less valuable.
The key patent on the best-selling anti-inflammatory medication, used to treat conditions like arthritis, was expiring at the end of 2016. Regulators had blessed a rival version of the drug, and more copycats were close behind. The onset of competition seemed likely to push down the medication’s $50,000-a-year list price. That's what happened in Europe. Instead, the opposite happened in the U.S.
Through its savvy but legal exploitation of the U.S. patent system, Humira’s manufacturer, AbbVie, blocked competitors from entering the U.S. market. For the next six years, the drug’s price kept rising. Today, Humira is the most lucrative franchise in pharmaceutical history.
Next week, the curtain is expected to come down on a monopoly that has generated $114 billion in revenue for AbbVie just since the end of 2016. The knockoff drug that regulators authorized more than six years ago, Amgen’s Amjevita, will come to market in the United States, and as many as nine more Humira competitors will follow this year from pharmaceutical giants including Pfizer. Prices are likely to tumble.
The reason that it has taken so long to get to this point is a case study in how drug companies artificially prop up prices on their best-selling drugs.
AbbVie orchestrated the delay by building a formidable wall of intellectual property protection and suing would-be competitors before settling with them to delay their product launches until this year.
The strategy has been a gold mine for AbbVie, at the expense of patients and taxpayers.
AbbVie did not invent these patent-prolonging strategies; companies like Bristol Myers Squibb and AstraZeneca have deployed similar tactics to maximize profits on drugs for the treatment of cancer, anxiety and heartburn. But AbbVie’s success with Humira stands out even in an industry adept at manipulating the U.S. intellectual-property regime.
“Humira is the poster child for many of the biggest concerns with the pharmaceutical industry,” said Rachel Sachs, a drug pricing expert at Washington University in St. Louis. “AbbVie and Humira showed other companies what it was possible to do.”
Following AbbVie’s footsteps, Amgen has piled up patents for its anti-inflammatory drug Enbrel, delaying a copycat version by an expected 13 years after it won regulatory approval. Merck and its partners have sought 180 patents, by one count, related to its blockbuster cancer drug Keytruda, and the company is working on a new formulation that could extend its monopoly further.
An AbbVie spokesman declined to comment. The company’s lawyers have previously said it is acting within the parameters of the U.S. patent system. Federal courts have upheld the legality of AbbVie’s patent strategy with Humira, though lawmakers and regulators over the years have proposed changes to the U.S. patent system to discourage such tactics.
More at https://www.nytimes.com/2023/01/28/business/humira-abbvie-monopoly.htm
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SECOND, since you're always bragging about how rich, smart, and "better" you are (all the while being evil, and with a broken brain), accusing anyone of having a "superiority complex" .... well, that"s a great deal of projection.
Innit?
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Quote:You are misunderstanding how inflation for drugs or natural gas or just about everything is controlled by rich people (not by Biden nor by Democrats) because you don't like me, probably because you control no prices and no one, not even yourself.
Originally posted by SIGNYM:
SECOND, since you're always bragging about how rich, smart, and "better" you are (all the whole being evil, and with a broken brain), accusing anyone of having a "superiority complex" .... well, that"s a great deal of projection.
Innit?
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