Massive price gouging by major US health companies

[bannork]

https://fortune.com/2025/01/15/ftc-pbms-unitedhealth-brian-thompson-cvs-caremark-cigna-pharmacy-benefit-managers/

[novacova]

Price gouging in the US has been ubiquitous since the leftist insane asylum rats escapees infested the White House 

[Phillip9]

6 minutes ago, novacova said:

Price gouging in the US has been ubiquitous since the leftist insane asylum rats escapees infested the White House 

 

You must not have been paying for any health care in the US during the trump years like I was.  Things weren't any different back then.

[Centigrade32]

18 minutes ago, novacova said:

Price gouging in the US has been ubiquitous since the leftist insane asylum rats escapees infested the White House 

 

You are looking pretty 'out there' yourself, with your over the top descriptions. Pot calling the kettle black?

[novacova]

12 minutes ago, Phillip9 said:

 

You must not have been paying for any health care in the US during the trump years like I was.  Things weren't any different back then.

You’re correct, haven’t paid health insurance in the US for years 

3 minutes ago, Centigrade32 said:

 

You are looking pretty 'out there' yourself, with your over the top descriptions. Pot calling the kettle black?

That really makes no sense. It’s been blatantly clear and obvious that prices of everything has skyrocketed since day one of the Biden administration. Anyone that can’t see that has their head in the sand.

[Hawaiian]

The FDA is complicit in all of this. The agency is really controlled by Big Pharma instead of the other way around.

ONE EXAMPLE:  When the original patent for Viagra expired, Pfizer got an extension because the new use was to address ED.  It was first introduced to treat a specific heart condition.  

[0james0]

2 hours ago, Hawaiian said:

The FDA is complicit in all of this. The agency is really controlled by Big Pharma instead of the other way around.

ONE EXAMPLE:  When the original patent for Viagra expired, Pfizer got an extension because the new use was to address ED.  It was first introduced to treat a specific heart condition.  

The FDA is beholden by pharma. Many of the pharma board members are ex FDA admins and vice versa. The system is corrupted and needs to be revamped.

[Centigrade32]

52 minutes ago, 0james0 said:

The FDA is beholden by pharma. Many of the pharma board members are ex FDA admins and vice versa. The system is corrupted and needs to be revamped.

 

Yes, that's what happens. The difference is only the new people at the trough. Nothing to do with Left or Right. Only when the argumentative idiots see and understand this will there be a sea change.

By Argumentative Idiots I mean those who divide everything into Left and Right. Us and them. Dems and Republicans. It's so banal and ignorant of reality that it's simply not worth trying to hold an intelligent conversation with the mad extremist types. They think they are normal.

For them, everything the Dems/Republicans do is wrong. Though to be fair, it's usually those who identify as being on the Right who are the worst offenders.

I agree with some of the things that RFK Jnr stands for. Do that mean I have to agree with everything he thinks? That's how they behave here. It's infantile.

It's either all one way or nothing. Moronic.

[metisdead]

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