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RobotToaster@mander.xyz to Health - Resources and discussion for everything health-related@lemmy.worldEnglish · 2 years ago

Sanders to target diabetes, weight loss drugs like Ozempic

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Sanders to target diabetes, weight loss drugs like Ozempic

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RobotToaster@mander.xyz to Health - Resources and discussion for everything health-related@lemmy.worldEnglish · 2 years ago
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The Senate Health Committee will hold a hearing next week on the diabetes epidemic in the U.S., committee Chair Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) said.  Sanders, who earlier this year interrogated d…
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    “And then the question is why we are paying in some cases eight times more for that drug than people in other countries?”

    Good question.

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      The free market will reduce prices. Oh wait, it didn’t? Hmmm

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        The healthcare industry is the furthest thing from a free market.

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          The entire “free market” is a fraud.

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            Only the sith deal in absolutes.

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