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Day 16 of asking Phil to expose Germany for stealing from over 350'000 us citizens my elderly grandma alone lost 80'000 who might actually not be here if it wasn't for harvani
You can buy it from Australian providers for less than 2,000 = total cure. I got it from a US transfusion as they took so long to start testing for it.
wait wasn't hep c cured?
Saw this on my recommended home feed on my phone.
Side unrelated note:
What do you think of the EU article 13 (or whatever it's called) ruling? I would think a video like this wouldn't even be able to be made because the company your talking about would copywrite strike you for using there video even tho it should be fair use... This is a big deal
flying to one of these countries, staying there and getting treatment, and flying back is cheaper then just getting treated in the US
Seriously, right?
Didnt potus say he was going to fix this shit, oh sorry I forgot he's a lier.
yes and no, more and more countries are changing their laws so only civs get the 'reduced' price.
and cheap is a lie since we pay a shitload of taxes for it
Jeroen van den Dooren odds are americams pay just as much in taxes.
When all is said and done 60+% of my income goes to taxes.
I think only if it's advanced stages in most cases, where not treating you would be against the hippocratic oath. I mean, if I contract Hep C, I get the meds for free and done and dusted right quick. But that's as a citizen. If you're not a citizen you have to be pretty sick for them to feel it's their moral directive to treat you.
"Healthcare system in America is killing people"
*pretends to be surprised*
Funny how liberals consider drug addicted criminals people but not 20 week old babies in a womb.*pretends to be surprised*
@@leganzar7831 Oh no let's go there, lets go to the high maternal deaths in the U.S., which is higher than any first world country.
@@leganzar7831 I was under the impression that good healthcare was a bipartisan issue. You saying caring for the american people isn't bipartisan?
@@leganzar7831 Yeah cause a fetus cannot exist without its mother while a drug addict can, just badly.
Oh shit, I think I missed the part of the video where doctors are purposefully giving prisoners Hep C.
isn't this just another example of how healthcare is treated as a business in america?
Earth
@@MrJunkye Most other countries on Earth care more about people having access to health care than trying to profit as much as possible off of it. Especially in developed nations.
It is a business
yeah it sucks but if it wasn't then there wouldn't be any healthcare nor any incentive to look into the field.
Koolers20 You’re forgetting about good people. Saving lives and changing the world is a pretty big incentive to many people who do this. Contrary to what America values, not everything valuable is money.
So basically its cheaper to buy a plane ticket, go to egypt, get the treatment, and fly back
So basically it's cheaper to buy plane tickets, go on a vacation to egypt with twenty of your friends, get the treatment, and fly back
Garrett shit.. you could probably live extravagantly there for 6m-1y
Too bad price discrimination exists and they wont sell it to you there
What I'm surprised about is how I didn't hear that people could simply get this stuff from China, Ukraine, Egyptz or even the black market. Especially if you make a generic version that's near effective as the original.
Egyptians get it for a subsidised price foreigners can get it for around 2000 Egyptians pounds which is a lot higher than what Egyptians pay for but in the grand scheme of things still only $115
$80 vs. $42,000...
Yup, that's the American biotech system for you.
Humanity deserves Extinction at this point... Because they are afraid on how much it will Cost $$$.
Lets not forget get the America is the one that invented it
@T No we don't. This is Murica', only the strong(and rich) get to live.
You're assuming they only have to cure each prisoner once. You can get HepC again once you're cured... I'm sure heroine addict criminals will still inject themselves with dirty needles
@T yeah. We make all the great medical advancements for you and you refuse to support legal intellectual property rights and leach off us. Great country over there, everyone look at this guys awesome country
US healthcare cost is insane. It's crazy how Pharma companies have so much power over people for such a necessity as healthcare.
Yea crazy, people who've worked hard their entire lives to invent cures for diseases are rich so evil.... they deserve to be rich and powerful. What's so virtuous about helping someone who'd stab you for a 8 ball?
@@leganzar7831 Right, because every person in prison is in there for a violent crime. And the people getting rich off of these schemes aren't the scientists and researchers, it's CEO's and share holders who don't know a bacteria from a baseball bat.
@@BlueberryBlanket true heroine addicts and criminals are our friends. Quick question how many drug addicts or criminals have invented cures for diseases?
@@leganzar7831 spamming won't save you from being wrong
@Steven Chernets ooohhh forgot about the overarching conspiracy that's locking up undeserving people lol
Drug companys: how much is your life worth? Then we will charge you that price.
More like “we’ll charge you triple”... these people are disgusting
Funny how people who dont inject heroine think the price is reasonable.. maybe they should spend their heroine money on not dying of HepC
@@leganzar7831 it's not reasonable, treatments in medication for a lot of things are not reasonable. For example epipens, inhalers, insulin. Medication that is used daily or saves a person life shouldnt cost hundreds of dollars
Yeah, I like how they say it's cheaper than other treatments, like, so from (i'm guessing) 30% of sick who could afford that treatment, you improve it to 45%, awesome, meanwhile 55% of them will still die due to your insatiable greed.
@@Weeniehutnurse Leganzar is a troll... Seriously, they pop in with the same snide comments in just about every thread for this video.
The reason they don't get the drugs aren't complicated at all.
The sole underlying reason is in a word: Greed.
or Capitalism
WEAPONS OF ASS DESTRUCTION Same difference.
Money is a byproduct, it's a matter of nugenix. Letting the useless eaters die to thin out the population
@@yaho5785 Capitalism is the reason that drug/cure exists in the first place. Capitalism is also the reason why US has pretty much destroyed the competition when it comes to medical research in the world. Do you believe that destroying incentives for companies to innovate and reap rewards is a good idea?
@@NoobieToob Obviously not. Doesn't change the fact that the only thing keeping the drug from prisoners is capitalism.
Hep-C drugs are free here in Canada. I guess the government figured the cost of the drugs were cheaper than paying for liver transplants.
Yeah but is that the cure or just treatment drugs thats the big question sadly
"Free"......
After giving half your pay check away
Pluto : I mean better than giving away half your life savings
In Canada, each province has their own system, so some provinces may have better coverage than others if they made deals with the drug manufacturers. Still, I'd take Canada's system over the state's. As someone who has been through the same major surgery recently in the states and in Canada a few years ago, the insurance company decided when I'd leave the hospital in the states, and the doctors decided in Canada.
@@Yolthe bur if you give up half your paycheck, you will still give up half your life savings, and the cost for the drug is just one instance as opposed to life long taxes, so it makes treatment much more convenient, but also more expensive.
Omg a company called 'Gilead' is evil, I'm shocked
@J Colton I'm pretty sure she's referring to Gilead being the new name of the US in The Handmaid's Tale.
J Colton it’s sarcasm might now be funny but that’s what sarcasm is
J Colton y u mad 😂
@@gafv5981 He has to take out his frustration with women somehow, Leave him be. The fact that he couldn't tell it was a joke is sad enough...
@J Colton Christ, learn to take a joke.
I can't be the only one who sees a problem with a healthcare system that's more concerned about maximizing profits than actually saving people.
I can’t be the only one that sees that not everyone can work tirelessly on research and development for curing people other than yourself without a personal incentive.
In Layman’s terms: Yes I agree that the degree to which they can profit from it is disgusting. But you can’t expect everyone to work for other people with nothing but “the good of the world” to pay for it. I’m willing to bet a bottle of Savoldi not everything you do is also with that completely selfless motive.
@@mcmuinorac5848 tru however if they were making a profit at 80$ they don't need to sell them at 40000 a bottle
MC Caronium
Ever hear of a non-profit organization? Pretty much, it's a business model that operates only to cover the costs of business transactions, whether that be labor salary, operations budget, what have you. If big pharmaceutical companies were to adapt this type of model, Hepatitis C and other dehabilitating diseases could be treated at a large scale while also keeping pharmaceutical companies' lights on. Paying $42,000 for a bottle of life saving pills when the production cost of a bottle of these aforementioned pills is only $40 is unethical no matter how you try to make of it.
@@mcmuinorac5848 lots of people do shit without incentive. Its called being a decent, empathetic human being.
@@treymagathan847 why would they ever adapt that without being forced? How about we take our healthcare away from the pockets of a few only looking to make money.
I actually got chills witnessing the straight faced spokesperson's argument for maximizing profit while inmates livers literally rot.
"If we can't make a profit, we can't continue exploiting your suffering for profit in the future!"
Humans. Not all. But some.
That’s hard capitalism for you
Why blame pharma companies? R&D farms spend lots of time and money on inventing something. It's like gambling - you don't know when your next success will come. People take R&D for granted, they'll spend tons of money on entertainment, jewellery, iPhone, luxury items but when it comes to R&D - "science is so boring - it's so nerdy and corny, let's watch some youtuber's makeup tutorial and buy their merchandise".
@@GAMEOVER-yy6zj I'm from Canada and I feel like I'm watching the badlands from lion king on crack and shrooms. Clearly the light doesn't touch America.
Hearing the excuses pharma companies use to charge astronomical prices makes my skin crawl
@ this is how we end up with zero HepC drugs (or others). Drug R&D is insanely expensive and RISKY. If there's not tons of money to be made, there will be no new drugs.
labobo libertarian gang
@ I'm not brainwashed. I actually understand the pharmaceutical industry. EU countries negotiate better prices with the pharmaceutical companies because they have socialized medicine. What this means is that in order for the pharmaceutical companies to still make a profit, it has to gouge the United States to cover the lost profit opportunity of Europe. What this boils down to, is that we pay higher prices so that you can have your socialized medicine. If we also participated in a single payer system, the drug companies would no longer have the opportunity to make profit on their drugs (at least not enough to justify the risks involved in development *average prices of drug development are between 500 million to 1 billion dollars and nearly 9 out of 10 drugs fail Phase I-III in the development pipeline*). If there is no opportunity to not only make a profit, but to recoup on your investment, there will not be drug innovation.
If the EU did not have socialized medicine, the costs of prescription drugs in the US would likely average to a lower cost for us because they wouldn't feel the need to make up lost profits from the EU and other areas. In other words, you're welcome.
@@James-ft9fm Correction: "Imaginary lost profits". Movie industry tried the same bullshit.
Companies still will make money of "socialized medicine". Otherwise they would not do business there. It is just not immediately huge profits as in america. American companies lack patience and long term planning. They want instant profit now and not it will get there but take 10 years. They are behaving like greedy children.
Sovaldi isn't free in Italy btw, so your socialist paradises do have limits
Another evil pharmaceutical company. I'm shocked.
Suddenly Martin Shkreli is looking like a Robin Hood that sacrificed his own freedom to showcase how corrupt these companies are. his 750 markup of a medication that was original 13.50 doesn't look so bad now when you consider how fucked they are with the markup of a drug that could make millions of lives better.
You invent a cure for a disease and you can give it out free. Oh wait you're busy watching GOT and smoking pot... guess the evil people will just cure it.
Company invents cure to a disease that kills people and gets a patent. Then prices it reliably below the market standard to pay their research and development costs. Key board warriors "EviL PhaRmA"
Guess it would be better if those companies didn't find a cure in the first place. You do something that someone likes and try to get a return on your investment for research and the time you spent bleeding money, and then everyone calls you evil lmao
The profit motive is the primary reason why so many life saving drugs have been developed. Hate the motive all you want and point out how unfair it is that only wealthy people can afford these drugs during the first few years of its production, but recognize that the drugs would not even exist if it weren't for that fact.
After the company makes billions of dollars, the prices come down. They have to make as much money as possible right away to fund all the research they do that ends up not producing an effective drug, which is the most common outcome.
My father in law got hep C as a prison guard. It didn't flare up/show signs till 20 years after exposure. He got the treatment but his liver was too damaged. He died 2 years after being cured waiting for a transplant. He was also denied disability, even when he couldn't walk on his own. The system is so broken... 💔
My mom died 4 years ago from the exact same thing. She was on the transplant list for 5 years, before she got so bad they just told her she no longer applicable for transplant. I'm so sorry for you loss!
Im in high schoola and Im currently researching creating chimeras to harvest human organs threw pigs by injecting human stem cells into pig embryos. Threw this I realized how bad the organ transplant system is. I hope in the future we decide to go threw with harvesting human organs from pigs as this will save many lives ):
@@yoshigaming1649 that wont slide with vegans
This world is pretty shitty, sorry for your loss.
This isn't just Hep C. It's medication in general. It's nearly impossible to continue using your prescription medication in jail.
Considering it cost about $5,000 to fly to and from Egypt you could just send people there to buy the cure and save a butt ton.
Except their agreement was specifically designed by the drug company to prevent that. My guess is you'd have to prove citizenship to receive those prices.
@@Blueyez369 just buy the generic version that is made by other companies.
5k ??????????? Where do you even get your tickets mate, i found a ticket for 750 and that is both ways lol
Buy it from the Aussies providing it for less than 2,000!
@@BxPanda7 murica
Humanity: Discovers a cure for a nasty disease.
USA: It's free real state.
@DumbLewi Dumb Says the one who didn’t capitalize the *E* in “English” 😂
Also didn't punctuate.
JC Z. Capitalization, in this case, doesn't really apply. The problem with the original comment is the numerous errors, excluding capitalization or other punctuation.
Hehe "Hunanity". I love me a good typo, and then cyberbulling the commentor. It's a youtube past-time I enjoy.
Company: Invests untold millions into researching and developing a cure for a disease.
RUclips commented: But just give it away though.
It's scummy but the profits from one cure are the future investments in the next.
You think research and development is cheap? Testing? Facility construction?
Everything costs.
Worked with prisoners in here in Australia with Hep C. Our goal is eradicating the virus (because we can). If someone is tested positive with the virus here they get treated, full stop with little to no charge to to carrier.
This continues to make me feel sad for the brothers and sisters in the US.
The corruption in the US is just too much, but it's coming to and end :) Very soon :)
@@BxPanda7 are you just hopeful, or is there actually something in the works to limit corruption?
Don't feel bad for us. We have idiots voting for other idiots who keep this state going.
@@lnoobe There's something very big in the works that will reveal widespread corruption across the US and eventually worldwide. There's going to be big consequences that will incite a big change in society as a whole.
It has already started.
You just won me over as a subscriber with this in-depth investigative report. You performed a tremendous community service. 🙏
$1000 a pill? No humanity lol
Sean I think it means $1000 total, so the full treatment that might take multiple pills over a period of time. Still expensive, but not quite as bad as per pill.
@@StudioHannah The woman says $80,000 per treatment, which was about $1k a pill 3:45 (84k per treatment**)
@@StudioHannah Sorry but the video explicitly said that the pills we almost $1000 each. That's why the full treatment plan is about $84,000! Did you watch the video!
$1000 a pill is fair if it costs that much to produce it. However, if Egypt can do a full treatment for $80, seems the pills only need to be $0,99.
@@bararobberbaron859 there is no way that it costs $1000 per pill to manufacture.... this is price gouging from the highest order... and should be illigal
Netflix can cure my boredom AND viruses?
Respect +10
This made me laugh way harder than it should of.
@Mister Skarred I heard about that and wtf is up with that I saw his tweet it wasn't even that bad he just said her movie they were promoting was like meh looking
It can't cure boredom. Only treat it.
"Big pharma keeps prices high" in other news, water is wet.
Every company will maximize profits when the laws allow... There's a reason this is only a problem in US.
still infuriating and unnecessary nonetheless
Water is not wet
"The evidence shows that the company pursued a calculated scheme for pricing and marketing... based on one goal: maximizing revenue regardless of the human consequences."
Yeah. Thats capitalism.
Why can't all the labs working for no profit come up with life saving drugs? Why is it always these evil companies saving lives? It makes me so sad seeing all these companies helping people making money.... It would be better if nobody got help and nobody would be evil!
@@johneurek8181 Because these "evil companies" are making money and can afford to pay the top minds in their field as opposed to a non-profit.
@@johneurek8181 Oh lol I just actually read your whole comment. I'm not being negative or positive with my comment, I'm merely pointing out the facts.
Numbzie they don’t pay top minds. They pay the execs. That’s where the money goes. Not necessarily to the scientists inventing and producing it
@@perfectlybroken7731
Those "top minds" are still getting paid though. I find that lots people going into that field are more interested in making a living and profit rather than actually focusing on helping others. So big companies buy them out with big paychecks.
Love the effort phrama will go with their bullshit to try and excuse their greed. "Err...we as a society value... innovation... and someone gotta pay for it"
innovation is expensive...lol I would love to see your socialistic business practices actually work but your business would ultimately be bankrupted as you have to cover your costs and covering your costs is not anymore greedy than you demanding a "living wage" to cover your bills in order to live comfortably. :O
Matt i agree. That line would work so much better if their execs weren’t getting paid so extremely well. I bet the scientists aren’t even getting that much. Just the very top.
You have to realize that if there is no incentive the company wouldnt have created the cure at all and people would just die. The alternative is actually more people dying
@@trymeout1091 I'm not saying they shouldn't make a profit, but let's not pretend they're just trying to make an honest living. Gilead has even halted their HIV research by 6 years, because the findings were too positive. Had they developed the drug at that point, it would have affected their current profits. So they continued to sell a drug that was toxic to patient's kidneys and bones, when they didn't need to... for money.
But yeah, I must be a commie.
@@cooldes4593 This goes beyond incentive my man, halting research to ensure profits is detrimental to people's health. They can definitely do both. I'm not saying they don't need to make a profit, but greed is endless, over the years big pharma has continued to prove they are willing to indirectly kill, to increase profits.
I have never been more infuriated about something I had no prior knowledge about. Great piece!
Same
beautiful bastards crying in corner bc they weren’t greeted at start
Yeah that always takes me at surprise.
But I'm cool with it, get called a beautiful bastard in the morning as I'm on the other side of the globe,
Waking up being called a beautiful bastard is a top fukin notch thing!
Stop calling me out! :-p
I think he’s purposely watching his language during the deep dives so teachers have an easier time showing it to their students. He mentioned it about a month ago. Ish
@@adambier2415 Correct. The morning programs are meant to be as ad-friendly as possible, so no calling the fans BB.
@@CDRandom Not just ad friendly, on a recent ep. it was noted that his shows are being viewed in some schools and journalism classes, so it could also be that he's making an effort to keep these deep dives *clean*, if you will.
because money is more important than saving people,,,, i guess
I’ve noticed you have a really talented graphics team. Keep up the great work!
This aint no video game. What graphics.
@@cloudridermrbliss7085 visual images produced by computer processing i.e., software to produce graphical interface such as the charts.
At this point the pharmaceutical companies aren’t selling drugs, they’re asking patients what their lives are worth to them, then making them pay for it.
Is it also a coincidence that Gilead is the name of the ever so corrupted government of the handmaids tale?
I T H I N K N O T
Yea liberals picked the name... we know that media is biased thanks for admitting it
Leganzar The Handmaids Tale was written in 1985... It’s not some conspiracy against a pharmaceutical company that liberals made up. Just an interesting coincidence
Chealcey Dennis “hurrr durr liberals”
It's... it's a biblical reference...
@@badasspinkpony5486 Thank you
This is why your work is so important. Thank you for posting this!
Health to the highest bidder. America is so shameful.
Creatiing cures that didn't exist before US companies invented them then selling them to the vast majority of US adults that have health insurance (for a $0-$50 copay) and aren't in jails sharing needles.... Yes so shameful. It would be much better for everyone to die without a cure... Lol
eyup.
@@Caseylawton
What? No one's saying that profiting off a developed drug is shameful lol. But price-gouging your customers for the only cure on the market _is_ shameful lol.
@@unlikelysalmon786 maybe, but the point is that there would be no cure if they couldn't price grub. So let them do that for a decade or two. Your grandkids will thank you when most drugs cost just slightly more than Advil. And there is a drug for most everyone and everything under the sun
Stuff like this make me question if we're ever going to get a cure for cancer.
Call it a conspiracy theory, but my Mom and I are convinced they have the cure, but they'll never release it. Think of all the scientists, researchers, and organizations that would tank if it came out. Now to mention Big Pharma would lose all that sweet cancer drug money.
There is a cure growing up my friend Josh barret Dad’s he had lung cancer, tumor in the brain he used a Device that targets the disease.
Each disease has a negative and positive frequency I remember John was showing me on his computer all the diseases that can be cured. I said why isnt this on the market? Goes Nicolas lets take cancer as example they can make 100k off me. You business would want to give up there lifestyle all because simple download software?”
It was a great question and answer he gave
If it’s been discovered by an American company, they probably burned it and banned anyone from finding it
Ms. Artemis, it’s exactly that: a conspiracy theory. you’re literally just making something up based on no evidence whatsoever because you think it sounds good, and then you peddle that bullshit around the internet lmaooo if there were a cure for cancer we’d *all fucking know*, it would just be an incredibly high price to pay and plenty of people would still get cancer and die because they couldn’t afford treatment.
Dear Ms. Artemis,
I have a problem with this comment.
You see, the problem with is that it’s really, really not like any other disease.
I’ll try to explain with my terrible words.
Cancer is caused by your own body.
It starts when your body slowly begins to make mutated cells: abnormal ones.
You can either get it later in life, or very early.
And since it’s your own cells, each and every other cancer is different; unique.
No cancer is like the other.
And that’s where the problem lies.
I hope that I could get my point across, I’m not the greatest with words.
As a citizen of India, I was really happy when you mentioned that India rejected the patent but upon further research I found that that thought they did reject the patent initially, the finally succumbed to the big U.S. company pressure.
So are you guys buying the drug for crazy expensive prices now? If so then thats sad
I couldn't find many articles for this topic though this happened 3 years ago but on some sites it is mentioned that the entire treatment costs around $1000 here.
Thats still high but its not 20k+ i guess
However, when compared to the average income of most Indians, which is FAR lower than the average American, its cost is similarly traumatising to most Indian families.
@ hey can you not make an ass out of yourself? This is a serious issue we don't need your overgeneralizations and finger pointing it's not helping anything. We need solutions this is affecting everybody.
It's about time someone spoke on this. Keep digging because this has been a topic that needs to be talked about. Thank you for speaking on the ones who have no voice.
Healthcare should never be for profit, find another market, saving lives permanently isn't profitable.
It is profitable, that's why they do it. The issue is that it's cold and heartless, making more money over saving human lives, it's severely scummy
If it wasn't profitable then companies would not innovate to bring us these medications.
"Its better not to cure disease than profit from your research and ingenuity"
@Zachary Henderson The majority of all medicine made in history was done with little to no profit made, insulin was created and the rights to it were given away by it's creators, sadly it was then monopolized in america so now it's crazy expensive.
@@xBluegamerx yeah, but you're comparing apples and watermelons. Insulin was discovered accidentally, where is modern drugs required years of time and money and development to create. Unless people want to subsidize these costs in the development phase, unfortunately the only way to pay for it is often with high prices
capitalism is good, but not pure capitalism like this.
Capitalism isn't anything. Some people are evil and capitalism provides a way for those people to do as they wish but some people are good and capitalism provides them with just as much agency as evil people. REMEMBER capitalism is the worst form of gov except for all the rest...
In "pure capitalism" you wouldn't have a patent system that prevents other people from doing the same drug for cheap
@@Jmoneysmoothboy Which demon is responsible for these people's evil nature?
@@KaranaiaPlaysGames I don't understand your question. Do you mean a literal demon pulling strings? Cause I'm not sure how I would even respond to that.
Pure capitalism isnt anything its complete anarchy to which only the best succeed. When the some authority steps in is when morality gets involved and things like this happen
the problem is that things like education and healthcare are treated like tradeable goods and there fall under supply and demand which is the basis of our economic landscape
Because education and healthcare are specialized roles that require tons of investment to even perform.
How much to you think the dozens of researchers who eventually discovered the cure were paid? How much do you think their research materials cost?
How much money do you think was spent before they saw a single nickle in return? How many over priced bottles did it take before they broke even?
Because they are? You are paying for a service, much like that of a plumber. Your logic is defunct because you seem to think that you have a right to a service, when that service only exists because people are willing to pay for it. No service is a human right, whether it be food, medical care, education or housing. You as an individual have the ability to learn or do every single one of those listed, such as you have the ability to pick up a book and educate yourself, or you can learn how to create the cure for a disease and cure yourself. You can even grow your own food, or build your own house, however while you can do all of those things, it doesn't mean that you would end up with a product that is comparable to some who specialized in that area. And that is what you are paying for, someone's knowledge that they acquired over a long period of time, that resulted in a product that you want, one that most likely you wouldnt able to create all on your own.
That is what the medical field is, knowledge, or rather a culmination of many individuals knowledge, that produced something that you want. You do not have a right to someone else's knowledge, just like they do not have a right to yours. To say otherwise is to say that they have a right to your knowledge, in which case, why aren't you yourself, working for zero profit?
@F Pretty sure, most pharmaceutical companies, are owned by private companies, and thats working out so so well. lmao.
but as far as i understand is, that the company selling the drug is not owned by the public/government but owned by it's investors which is exactly why the price has to be high to be profitable. If it was a government owned company that there would not be such a great need to break even an the medication could be sold a lot cheaper@F
@F Please explain how that would work. Unless you abolish the patent system, what incentive does a pharmaceutical company have to charge any less than the absolute maximum they can get away with? If we do abolish the patent system, what incentive do companies have to innovate? Things like Healthcare cannot operate under free market principles, the simple reason being that it can be the economically beneficial choice to let people die. Same with education. (Take the healthcare with preexisting conditions issue: insurance companies will always lose money on these patients. The economically sensible thing to do is to not insure them, or insure them at a price they could never afford).
Listening to this greed makes me physically ill.
With these videos your doing good work of spreading awareness of issues we (teens/young adults/people who don’t keep up with traditional news) that we would otherwise not know about. Knowledge is power
Lots of great news here on youtube!
This title looks like a weird late April Fools joke... But it's seriously an issue, watch the video.
lmao I thought the same exact thing
I was just thinking the same crazy scary
I thought the same but this is a true sad and scary issue.
Idk why it would. Prison tattoos are extremely common and they are doing with improvised equipment.
It really doesn't. Its PDF ffs
We seriously need a change when it comes to healthcare. The pharmaceutical companies are paying off our representatives so I doubt itll change anytime soon
Jessica SmokeyMcPot what exactly should change, because without the incentive of making money the pharma companies simply won’t try to invent new drugs.
Das It Are you implying they only make money by selling to the U.S.?
Because I don’t know if you’re aware.. They’re still allowed to make money in other countries as well. They’re just not allowed to charge whatever the hell they want, and can’t force every country to allow patents.
@@dasit1965 you do realize thay the government is allowed to negotiate with pharmaceutical companies in most civilized nations, right? And they still have drugs. The companies elevate the price simply because they can in this country. They wouldn't just stop if they had limits, as you see they still sold to Egypt at a lower price because they didn't want to miss out
If we cut government out of the healthcare system completely then big pharma wouldn’t be an issue.
Big pharma doesn’t buy off the government. Governments own big pharma.
And pharma is completely ok with the relationship because then anybody who competes with them is looking at jail time
Jessica SmokeyMcPot You'd have to find the cure for greed first.
I really like this new direction on investigative journalism! keep up the good work.
I think that this would be considered explanatory journalism, which is still great.
OUTSTANDING journalism team! loving the deep dives philly this is why im a patreon
The medical patents, especially for life threatening drugs should not exist. Pharma should not have a monopoly over the drug market.
I agree 100%!! It’s basic human decency
I understand your point, but what happens if patents are taken away? The purpose of a patent is to allow a company recoup their research & development costs before their competitors can start creating the same product without having to invest large amounts of money up front. If we take away patents, will companies still invest in the expensive research & development?
and people's lives *
@@Not_Ciel Without the patent there is no incentive to invent these drugs. You could make an argument that the patent lasts too long or that there needs to be some sort of pricing scheme in place for these types of drugs so consumers are not ripped off, but the patent has to stay. It is a necessary evil.
What about subsidizing? This is an honest question. They won't have to upcharge costs if the costs to the business are lower from the start. Aren't the lives of our citizens worth that?
Netflix has all the answers.
Hello my English is not that good. Can you please explain to me the role of Netflix in this issue?? Thank you.
I think we need to acknowledge that when a company produces a product that makes itself obsolete we owe them a significant chunk of change for creating it. However, we should make sure that we pay that money as a nation so that the cure can go out to everyone and sunset the disease for good, rather than leaving any incentive to keep it kicking.
Now that's productive thinking!
My take-away from this very informative piece....do your best to take care of your bodies and minds. They don't care about us.
Jo March it’s always been a competition they’ve just known it longer then we have
Umm, duh! Who else will take care of yourselves. You always have to be responsible of yourselves. Mommy ain't gonna be there all the time. You stay from diseases. If you do get infected, ensure you don't spread it and receive regular treatment. But yeah, Gilead is EVIL. REDUCE THOSE PRICES GILEAD!!!
Not everything is free
Or push for Universal Healthcare. The US can afford it easily.
Or call your representatives and make change. Being complicit and caring about yourself doesn't change anything
Yeah, the sad part is probably almost nobody is going to care because they're in prison.
elsa1942 Even if they don’t care about the prisoners it can spread outside of prisons so that argument kinda falls flat.
@papyrus p Because eventually these prisoners get out and then they can start spreading it to civilians. This is a problem with prisons treating confinement as a punishment rather than a chance for rehabilitation. And it's why the US has such a high recidivism rate. Meanwhile you'll often times see American's get upset about how nice some prisons look in European countries. They'll point out how they look nicer than some apartments, so why would prisoners even want to leave? But those countries also have significantly lower recidivism rates. Meaning that once those prisoners get out, they don't go back in despite how nice those prisons may look. And that's because while they're there they aren't treated as being subhuman. They're given the tools so that once they're back out in society they can actually function properly and don't have to look to crime to get by.
So to wrap this back to Hep C. You create a never ending cycle. Someone goes into prison without Hep C, contracts it on the inside, then gets out and infects another person and that person infects another person and so on. Nothing is being done to end a cycle that actually should be rather easy to end. And that's because people in the US in particular don't give a shit about what happens to prisoners, because they never take into account that said prisoner, at least in many cases, is eventually scheduled to get out. And once they're out there's a possibility that something they do can directly impact that person that previously didn't care about what happened to that prisoner.
I guess you could just point out free healthcare as 'socialist' to the Americans, that way they'll loyally defend their overpriced 'innovative' pharmaceutical system to the death, being the good little patriot that they are. God, Americans are so gullible these days with Hillary and Trump! :P
I don’t care because they made the choice to risk getting infected.
elsa1942 yes and no. I mean the reason why it’s happening is because they’re using drugs and getting tattooed in prison. And then the society at large has to pay for that. How is that fair?
Pharma CEOs should be jailed for price gouging medicine. Not even just this HEP-C medicine, but like... why is insulin so expensive??!
Research and development in the current system of economics is expensive. There is no government research that outperforms the private sector
Should Apple be jailed for price gouging on their products? Double the price for half the performance of their competitors?
Why blame pharma companies? R&D farms spend lots of time and money on inventing something. It's like gambling - you don't know when your next success will come. People take R&D for granted, they'll spend tons of money on entertainment, jewellery, iPhone, luxury items but when it comes to R&D - "science is so boring - it's so nerdy and corny, let's watch some youtuber's makeup tutorial and buy their merchandise
".
Let me stop all of you right now. People shouldn’t die because they don’t have enough money. “Oh she died, but it’s okay big pharma has to pay their bills somehow amirite?”
It costs them literal cents to produce medicine after R&D.
Also if you equate medicine to the price of a new phone, YOU DONT NEED A PHONE TO LIVE. I know, controversial statement.
Okamakiri will you die if you don’t get the new iPhone X?
If you don’t get an iPad are you going to go into hypoglycemic shock?
If you can’t afford that new Xbox one are you going to go into anaphylactic shock?
Have I proven your argument invalid enough yet?
Always learning something new from your channel Phil.
kind of revolting to be honest that a company can do this. not only are they profiting off dying people but because they are restricting access to the drug due to pricing they are also allowing it to continue to spread and thus increasing profit because it leaves a % of the sick population untreated.
Did you just blame the company for the inherent viral trait of rapid mutation?
@@thefilth7368 No, but they did blame the company for limiting access to something that can effect all of humanity negatively, purely for profit.
@@missm.6923 Thank you. I seriously was questioning @Thefilth 's reading comprehension.
This was a fantastic deep dive. Very well done and informative. Hat's off to Elissa and everyone involved!
Yay. Something else for me to be mad and depressed about that I can't do anything about.
Indigo
If you can vote, you CAN do something about it.
Donate to the companies that are fighting against this. Spread awareness about it. Volunteer and get involved.
There is something you can do. There's so much you can do.
My grandma has had HepC from a bad blood transfusion 15 years ago and it drastically affected her quality of life. I hope this cure would be more available
is she able to sue?
Why should she have to pay though, this is the fault of the doctor, and yet her life is fucked because of it? Bullshit like this makes no sense, any accident on the part of the Medical institute that caused the issue should foot the bill, regardless of price.
So it's cheaper to fly somewhere else and pay doctor visit out of pocket , buy meds angle home!
if you have money to fly somewhere else, yes it is.
Considering a doctor in Egypt makes 100 USD a month, you'd pay $100 for the meds, $2400 for a bribe (2 years wages for that doctor) and $2500 for the flights. Spend a further $3000 to make a holiday out of it (Go see the Pyramids!) and $400 on souvenirs, your total bill is $8400. As opposed to $84,000 and not even leaving your own city.
@@bararobberbaron859 A bribe sounds like a good way to end up in an Egyptian prison. I wonder if prisons in Egypt are treating their prisoners for Hep C?
@@someothergrl16 It would be quite terrible to go to prison, but a bribe worth 2 years wages usually means they wouldn't mention you to the gov. And yeah, you'd get treated in jail. Kind of the homeless bankrobber idea. If you fail, you go to jail, but not homeless, so problem solved. If you succeed, you have what you need and your problem also gets solved.
that's nothing new though, for decades people from developed countries have been flying to south america in order to have surgery or dental care from those countries top doctors for a fraction of what they would be charged in their home country
These deep dives have been amazing and just keep getting better. More on topic then Vox deep dives while not forgoing any of the hard researched information. Great job and keep up the great work! DeFranco Elite!
The solution is that there are three sectors of the economy that should NEVER be for profit:
1. Education
2. Healthcare
3. Criminal reform
Specifically, the answer to this problem is nationalized public healthcare. The best way to implement that here in the states would be to expand the Medicare program to cover everyone.
Good Guy GiIead makes a Cure for Hep C and makes a bottle cost as much as a luxary car.
I mean granted, that bottle can and actually does save your life while allowing you to live the rest of it without all the complications if liver failure, and that luxury car sits in your garage so it can look pretty while you drive it in the weekends and wastes an exorbitant amount of fuel.
@@mcmuinorac5848 I guarantee you they could sell it at lower price or remove the patentent to promote cheaper options and still make an incredible profit due to their multiple other assets as a business.
Why try and justify greed when the pharmaceutical industry is holding a lifesaving drug hostage behind a price tag that could destroy a middle class individual financially?
@@cameronhawkins4877 The only greedy people are the ones that think Gilead is greedy and doesn't have a right to to make as much profit as they want.
@@agisler87 perhaps you getting it will change your mind? Fools like you stay foolish until directly affected.
@@tobisways2221 I may be a fool but I have personally seen the horrors of the NHS.
Maybe people like you will eventually learn people are not put on this Earth to serve you.
Gilead's not in it for helping humanity or the sick. They've got a product to do that, but they're in it for the money. Purely more than whats necessary.
'Murica
If people die from untreated diseases that have cures based purely on the cost of treatment, I think that counts as murder 🤷🏽♀️ It's not a bystander issue, it's extortion.
YES
Kinda like saying McDonalds murdered everybody who ever died from starvation, Nestlé murdered everyone who ever died of thirst and whoever manufactures swimming aids is responsible for every person who ever drowned.
@@thefilth7368 well that's different. McDonald didn't monopolize the food industry to the point where we **have** to buy food from them or starve to death. For Hep C is there other choice beside dying or paying thousand dollars
@@notamike4576 other drugs exist they just arn't as good. You aren't entitled to the fruits of billions in development for free.
@@katie-st8nx I know i was trying to disprove that guy's argument
Shkreli raises pill price = OUTRAGE!!! PUT HIM IN JAIL FOREVER
Gilead increases pill price = guess that's the way it is
Aww I miss him
Isn't Gilead the name of the dystopia from Handmaid's Tale?
Sara Sleightholm lol that’s what I was thinking!
Yes!
Rockin' Roll I believe your thinking of Galahad
Phil: Welcome to your morning show
Me: Im bout to sleep man, this is my goodnight show
Same... lol
Same
@@lyndajaeger4477 australian?
3rd shift life/ separate time zone!!!
Man! I just watched an episode of season 2 X-files where there was a prison virus breakout that was constructed by some company. So when I saw this title I freaked out a bit.
I thought you were saying _pepsi_ was killing everyone more than tuberculosis lmao
Might actually be accurate though lol
It is accurate 600 thousand people die each year of heart disease witch can be directly linked to excessive cola drinking 🤷♂️
Diabetes??
In cases of a cure for a deadly disease we need to set up like a HUGE 1 time payout for companies that develop cures and give them to the government. Just because someone decides to innovate in medicine doesn’t mean they shouldn’t have a right to reap the benefits but i think wed all agree there needs to be a bigger incentive for cures than lifetime symptom management.
Its US laws which allow this. EVERY other western country the medication for HEP C is free or under 100$.
It's flawed US laws.
You don’t want the government just determining when they should go in and take over the hard work and huge investment someone or some people have put in with virtually no compensation. You are underestimating peoples ingenuity when it comes to keeping their money. If we start doing what you are suggesting companies would just keep it all a secret and you’d never be the wiser (on some level I’m sure this already happens). I bet the only reason it is working in the other countries is because they know in America they can keep getting crazy money. It’s complicated though so the discussion needs to happen and its awesome Phil and his team brought this up.
@@bassisku which is why the drug was developed in the US. If other countries paid for the development cost, the prices would probably be cheaper in the US.
@@bassisku considering that i pay 60% of my income to taxes I wouldn't really call it 'free'
Very nice healthcaresystem you got there in the USA...
Hanno Rymerais I know, right?
I don't know how these big pharma executives sleep at night.
@@Znoisuled with no conscience and rolling in their blood money.
With your healthcare system the cure would never have been invented in the first place.
@@Znoisuled they probably have to use meds
*turns on news*
*hears plot to the movie Elysium in real life*
*turns off news*
But you cant turn off reality
"The best option financially isn't to cure anything but to prevent side effects." This is why capitalism just fundamentally doesn't work for health care. HEALTH CARE should be the focus of health care not monetary gain. And here's a wild idea for you, they put out the cure and make their fortune then work on trying to solve a new problem. Curing Hep C would definitely lower future gains on that drug but it wouldn't go away entirely.
The problem isn't capitalism. The problem is the patent system, which is inherently against capitalism.
It's not health care here in the US, it's corporate bank account care.
Poppy Fields Patents are exclusive rights give to someone or a company that means the government is forcing other companies not to compete. That is the antithesis of capitalism.
@Ashtarte
What others have said, The gouging is not because of capitalism it is the opposite of capitalism. Also capitalism drives finding a cure, because the first company to do so makes all the money there is to be made and everyone else losses. It sounds to me like you are trying to push some sort of political view towards capitalism without understanding what capitalism is.
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before: haha didnt quite make the april 1st date
after: well shit
The title reads like the start of a zombie film. 🍿
S. D. Maybe that was why there was a zombie movie trailer advertisement for me to watch before this video played. 🤔
Anyone else find it suspect that the company is called Gilead?... under his eye
Drug companies that are not selling drugs at an affordable price should be sued immensely.
A patient cured, is a customer lost. Money rules all. It's a sad world we live in.
*country. America is the only developed country with this issue. No other developed country treats healthcare like a business to monopolize.
Canada isnt any better if I'm being honest.
@@patdion1161 I mean we don't pay most healthcare and like 80% of meds are free
I used to have Hep C, before having it cured by a treatment of Harvoni. Thankfully I live in a country that actually cares it's citizens to a degree. (GO CANADIA!) So my treatment was paid by the country.
yah but I bet it took like 5 years to see the doctor and another 20 to get the drug.
(she says sarcastically remembering how many times her family said stupid shit about how the Canadian health system is useless trash)
Uhh u mean Canada?
@@ManuelLopez-jw5wu lol I said Canadia jokingly. ^_^ Yes, Canada. hehe
@@azurerogue3633 Man, it was almost like you were there with me! hahaha /sarcasm off. ^_^
Well CONGRATULATIONS TO YOU ALEX! Good to hear the positive out comes from patients like your self rather than the more “common”negative ones 🙏😌
Ideally medicine wouldn't be intellectually protected, but if you take away monetary incentives you might see a drop in advancements.
How come people say this so often when it's often not the case? If everyone is healthy and happy and not dying from preventable diseases why would advancements stop? We'd just find other aspects of life to improve and progress from...
@@dinahmyte3749
Because corporations don't care if people are happy and healthy. Corporations invest the time and resources to make new medicine ,so they want to profit.
If everyone can simply copy a pill that took one company millions in research dollars to invent, then no one is going to want to be the company that researches because it would be nearly impossible to make your money back.
@@musicf3b This is true to an extent, actually. But my main issue with this argument is, we as tax payers, actually finance a significant portion of that research usually. The government then sells it to the corps (at discounted rates with huge tax breaks to boot). It isn't purely profit for them. There is a minimal amount of investment required. But they certainly make A LOT. A lot, lot, lot, lot. And then skimp on their taxes through deductions (we can't deny this point anymore, both President Trump and Bernie Sanders have brought this up. Its non partisan). And we certainly DON'T need to price out the general population, so a disease can continue to propagate. Especially, when we- the American tax payer- helped pre-finance the treatment.
Capitalism, helping poor people all over the world*
*USA not included
The problem isn't capitalism, it's the patent system - which is inherently against capitalism.
@@Hallowed_Ground Naw man. This is the free market. The people who made the drug are getting paid for what they made. Without the money incentive they would may not have made the drug. The "free market" model is idiocy when it comes to Healthcare because those who lose, die.
Caedo - The problem with that is the fact that without the patent system - which goes against the idea of free markets/capitalism - the pharma company could not have stopped others from producing the drug much more cheaply.
Again, a problem with the patent system, not capitalism.
@@Hallowed_Ground you're going to have to support your argument. So far you have only said that you believe the two are not compatible without providing reason. In some ways patents reward innovators by providing them profits but in others patents also prevent further innovation by not allowing others to build off what is made without excessive fees. In capitalism if a person provides a better product they make more money. This company provided a better treatment so why should they not reap the rewards when believing in capitalism?
@PhillyD First of all, big thanks to you and your team for all that you do to cover stories that are not always in the public eye. With that being said please do a story on #MMIW. No one seems to be talking about this at the level that it should be. Please! 🙏🏼
Whenever they say Gilead my brain just goes to handmaid's tale..
Me too haha. So of course they're evil
That's propaganda for you... very effective
Blessed be the fruit.
@@jaebird789 Under His Eye
This why I don't like the concept of medical industry, it's basically making the maximum amount of money based of your miseries. All people should have access to all kinds of medicine with the minimum cost, and the development should be regulated and funded by the government it self
Hayder Almullahasan so where would the incentive to innovate and create new, stronger medications come from if the Gov limited all of it with regulations?
Finally, subscription services for unlimited drugs.
Oh how far we've come
Halfway into the video I forgot what channel I was watching lol
Gilead is starting to sound like the Umbrella Corporation. Minus the bio-weapons (as far as we know)
No no good sir, you misunderstand, they have the bio-weapons too! any pharmaceutical company has access to terrifyingly sophisticated bio-engineering technology. maybe not quite resident evil level exactly but they aren't far off. BE AFRAID
Business by design is predatory but this is perverse. Time for free healthcare.
I agreed with this comment until you got to the "Time for free healthcare" part, because that shit is more unrealistic than free college.
@@Not_Ciel *laughing in european*
@Rage Of Argentina Everyone will, but ideally the wealthy should cover most of it.
@Rage Of Argentina Because they can? However, as we already know, the richer you are the less taxes you pay, somehow.
@Rage Of Argentina of course he doesn't, after all what he said is a blatant lie. Taxation is theft anyway
Thank you Phil for making this video. Please share this video people it is so important.
This whole story makes me mad and makes me sick to my stomach
Gilead Corp: *"sounds like you need some Sivaldi! :)*
Just like every other story, the fix is to eliminate capitalism in sectors that are essential for life.
No joke, wanna clean up this bullshit, take the tax breaks away from churches and give them to medical employees and locations.
I'd much rather see a Doctor pay say 1% in taxes a year with the rest going to him because the service he is providing to his country on top of hospitals in general not having to pay taxes to the government since they to are providing a service for their government. Healthy people=better workers, better workers=better economy, better economy=richer nation.
It's a win a win for a country but instead we choose to inflate the cost of medical needs in order to fill the line of greedy fucks.
I agree, capitalism has its plus and minus, but we should think of the bigger picture on issues like this.
The lack of capitalism is what allows prices like this, if you still haven't figured out what makes this prices possible; is the patent law, which is completely anti-capitalist
Capitalism is why the cure exists. Why do people constantly neglect the tens of billions of investment dollars that went into making a pill that could be produced for eighty bucks?
Also listen to 5:19. Insurers are willing to pay steep prices so they aren't going to lower it because the loss they take on the odd Hep C victim is covered by the healthy people paying into their company.
So capitalism created the drug and socialism is why it is priced so high in the US. Egypt negotiated and came from a position of strength, willing to deny the patent for the desperately needed drug. Meaning Gilead had to play ball. That is literally capitalism. Negotiating prices and being willing to not buy the product if it is overpriced.
@@visen3773 not to mention government bails out companies when they fail. Yes in a lot of places competition is discouraged by laws and large corporations using their influence to to stop fair competition. I think the government should have to step in from time to time ,but they step in in the wrong ways as is now. There are certain aspects that regardless should be less about profit , i m not they shouldnt make a profit but it should be reasonable. You are right copy rights and patents are hurting the system.
Our health care system is a joke. How is it even legal for them to charge these types of pricing?!
Gilead does it, it's perfectly fine. Pharma bro does it, he get jailed.
I'm disgusted with US healthcare and patent system. Mga panulay.
He caught time for other charges
Def not why he’s in prison.
I know it's not an option for prisoners, but it looks like a round trip ticket from LA to Cairo can be found for under $1200. It's got issues, but it's in a lot more people's budgets than an $80,000 course at home.
They can't sell to US citizens from what it sounds like thats how they got the deal with the company
Egypt is almost done with curing Hep C.
I dont think theyd let you travel to egypt if you have hep c.
I know for a fact some countries prohibits your entrance if you carry hep c like UAE for example.
But Egypt could profit from this in a form of medical tourism or smth
@@christinacoad1821 they cant sell directly to the US, but you could come and get it yourself or ask someone to get it for you.
Drug costs around 60 USD / 28 tabs
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But capitalism is good, you guys! The rich people said so!
it is better than socialism or communism which will only leave a small amount of people well to do and leave the rest poverty stricken and possibly dying (check venezuela). however; that said, capitalism needs laws and rules to regulate it and the problem being right now is that laws are manipulated by the rich to get around those laws. i.e. why things like disney owning so much of the entertainment industry has gone through as "okay" when it wouldn't have if these laws were properly enforced.
@@feuryie you are confusing socialism for communism.... socialism actually works....
@@hh-nh6ju yeah... i mean look how many places have tried it and it's worked soooo often. like venezuela is working so well, right? cuz veneuzuela is socialism and now they're eating their pets.
even if it could work, it'd be temporary because the corrupt would ruin it and turn it on its head to gain product above others. it'll never work as long as corruption exist which will always exist as long as there is greed. you'll have more luck finding a live unicorn than making socialism work long term
Big Pharma is to blame...not capitalism.
@@hh-nh6ju where does socialism work? Apart from utopian theories?
Drug companies that find cures to illnesses should have government help to find next cures instead of charging patients to pay for the potential loos of revenue by curing said illnesses.
The government would then add taxes and in the end the consumer still pays. I get what you're saying and I do agree that regulatory bodies should .. regulate... the industry, but do you fully grasp the implications of the government "helping" the industry and how that will result in tax increases that will affect you personally?
That's not true the government is already given these companies these medical companies to find cures they get them from Grants so yeah they got their hand in pocket to but I think they only have to pay off the grant I don't know about any other money getting pass but most likely is getting pass
@@Valifornia the gov doesn't just have billions lying around for every drug company that asks for it.......the US is literally trillions of dollars in debt
@@katie-st8nx with trillion dollars in debt but billions in Grants to give out that's why the rich stay rich and the poor stay poor so yes they fun certain things they want cured and hepatitis C is one of those things and HIV is another
my mom works for the veterans association hospital, mostly with people born in the specific 20 years that the risk for Hep C is heightened. ('45-'65). She is constantly talking about Hepatitis and more specifically Hepatitis C because she specializes in diseases of the liver. I've grown up hearing about this kind of stuff my entire life. Philip I think it's genuinely really important that you've brought this to light on your platform and I thank you. My mother, who I'm insanely proud of, has good days where she tells me about all the veterans they've cured in the small group of liver clinics in VA hospitals she helps manage. The medication is out there. But it's not being made available to a huge number of people who really need it.
Nationalize healthcare and prohibit lifesaving drugs from holding a patent
HerrenGamingNews
Also known as: development of new life saving drugs stops overnight.
HerrenGamingNews No
@@matt61387 not if the government were to create a nonprofit ministry to over see creation of new drugs
@@matt61387 that ignores that the source of many drugs has been from academics
@@matt61387 it could work under the CDC creating drugs for zero profit and funded with some money diverted from military funding
Healthcare is a human right
“24,000 is still a lot for a full cure” looks at my college bills which is already at 40ishk
My total University cost was 40k. The return on that investment in under a year has been native and I have no problems paint off the loans. People needs to stop complaining about school bills and do more research into state universities.
Yea but you dont have to go to college to stay alive
db photographer oh I’m only 2 years in
Quynh Nguyen that would make it more justifiable because market value would be high. I pay 24k or I die. I can justify 24k for sure there. College is op tho, it’s an investment that may not pay off, but market will hopefully fix itself with new competitors like online only universities
@@Bumpierbags yea then it's a personal decision to pay 40k for an investment and it's on you whether or not it pays off. It's not comparable to an amount you NEED to pay to live