• Onno (VK6FLAB)@lemmy.radio
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    For the same reason that they’re targeting Australia, money. Apparently they feel that they’re not making enough of it, so now they’re withholding specific drugs and calling it “a commercial decision”.

    In Australia certain drugs are available under the Pharmaceutical Benefits Scheme which is essentially the Government negotiating prices with suppliers and subsidising the sale to patients.

    The pharmaceutical companies have been yelling about this for years trying to frame it as anti-competative.

    In Australia with universal healthcare, that doesn’t fly.

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    Why is it Germanys fault that US insurance companies are too incompetent to strike a better deal?

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          You’re right. Checked their site, they’re a German government mouthpiece. Hm. I stand corrected, thank you. In that case, you should definitely still take whatever they spew with the same amount of caution that you take an RT report.

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        Do you have a source for that? It’s funded by the German state and should thus be aligned with the government’s point of view which is not pro Russia.

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    Let universities develop new drugs and let pharmaceutical companies just produce these drugs, like they do with generica.

    This removes the pressure to remake development costs and society can focus on developing the most needed drugs first.

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      That would mean funding research and education, that’s a big no-no currently.

      The oligarchs want more dumb people.