American Insulin Prices Are off the Charts

[beijingwalker]

Hundreds of years

As I learned over half of the first immigrants from Europe to America didn't survive their first winter

 

[Hamartia Antidote]

As I learned over half of the first immigrants from Europe to America didn't survive their first winter

Oh so now you are transposing the country name with a continent name.

 

[beijingwalker]

Oh so now you are transposing the country name with a continent name.

Cause "hundreds of years" doesn't seem to match US well, and how do you know that people in US lived a longer life than people in China in early early Qing dynasty? You used black slaves to work and treat them as worthless animals, were they Americans too? You killed off tens of millions of natives American Indians, were they considered Americans?

 

[Hamartia Antidote]

Cause "hundreds of years" doesn't seem to match US well,

We have been a country for over 200 years and even before that a British colony so I'm not sure why your math skills doesn't consider that "hundreds of years" applicable vs compared to the lower denominator "tens of years".

 

[beijingwalker]

We have been a country for over 200 years and even before that a British colony so I'm not sure why your math skills doesn't consider that hundreds of years.

It's better to just say 200 years but not hundreds of years, hundreds of years sound sort of misleading. and 200 years is not even a footnote in the Chinese history book.

 

[Hamartia Antidote]

It's better to just say 200 years but not hundreds of years, hundreds of years sound sort of misleading. and 200 years is not even a footnote in the Chinese history book.

Sort of like your current high life expectancy being just a footnote in time.

 

[beijingwalker]

Sort of like your current high life expectancy being just a footnote in time.

Not very high actually, we are still improving, you are declining, even in life expectancy, the speed of our rising can never keep up with your falling.

 

[Hamartia Antidote]

Not very high actually, we are still improving, you are declining, even in life expectancy, the speed of our rising can never keep up with your falling.

You are only rising because the West has shown you the way...not vice-versa. Without Western influence you would still be happily working as farmers in the same rice fields behind an oxen team as hundreds of your previous generations with a life expectancy consistent of a poor 3rd world country.

 

[Avicenna]

You are only rising because the West has shown you the way...not vice-versa. Without Western influence you would still be happily working as farmers in the same rice fields behind an oxen team as hundreds of your previous generations with a life expectancy consistent of a poor 3rd world country.

What a silly thread.

And a silly post.

History and contributions to human knowledge are a continuum.

Without the Chinese you probably wouldn't be enjoying your 4th of July fireworks.

At a minimum.

In regards to the topic of the thread.

Yea, its a joke about medication prices in the US.

Or for that matter any pricing in the healthcare field.

The system is shaped by those with a clear agenda to enrich themselves and pay lip service to the public good.

Case in point, COVID travel nursing and the nursing shortage.

Defies any common sense.

 

[beijingwalker]

You are only rising because the West has shown you the way...not vice-versa. Without Western influence you would still be happily working as farmers in the same rice fields behind an oxen team as hundreds of your previous generations with a life expectancy consistent of a poor 3rd world country.

Countries rise and fall in the history, you sound like that China had never rose in the past, need to remind you again, your US has only been around for 200 years but not every country's history is that short.

 

[Hamartia Antidote]

What a silly thread.

And a silly post.

History and contributions to human knowledge are a continuum.

Without the Chinese you probably wouldn't be enjoying your 4th of July fireworks.

At a minimum.

In regards to the topic of the thread.

Yea, its a joke about medication prices in the US.

Or for that matter any pricing in the healthcare field.

The system is shaped by those with a clear agenda to enrich themselves and pay lip service to the public good.

Case in point, COVID travel nursing and the nursing shortage.

Defies any common sense.

Yes, but China's life expectancy has risen dramatically in the last 70 years (~43 in 1950) compared to the previous hundreds of years.

This isn't because they suddenly stumbled upon some in-house created miracle life extension foodstuff compared to everybody else on the planet (US ~70 in 1950)

More like they have leveraged Western mechanized agricultural advances to allow for enough food production/transportation (and spoilage prevention using refrigeration) to meet the nutritional needs of their population.

So yes now they have finally reached levels seen in other developed countries (~80 in the 2020's)...and yes with Covid they seem to have ticked slightly higher than the US when using some metrics.

But it's not some super magic trick they pulled out of their hat that shows their prowess.

 

[beijingwalker]

1.3 million Americans ration insulin amid high drug prices in US, study shows​

1.3 million Americans ration insulin amid high drug prices in US, study shows

David Himmelstein, a researcher of the study, told FOX Television Stations he is “greatly alarmed” by their findings.

www.foxla.com

 

[大汉奸柳传志]

US drug pricing is a joke. Yes they have the best r&d and invent most useful meds but they have to come up with a better way to healthcare.

but it creates higher GDP figures