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Recovering lawyer, Huskers & Packers fan, poker degenerate, scurvy fighter, sarcastic SOB ... Mostly here for the dogs.

West Des Moines, IA
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    1. Grange‏ @Grange95 30 Dec 2017

      "NextSource CEO Robert [said] the company sets its prices based on the costs it incurred in developing the medication ..." It's a 40-year old drug you bought from another company. WHAT DEVELOPMENT COSTS are you recouping?? https://www.cbsnews.com/news/cancer-drug-lomustine-price-hiked-1400-percent-by-new-owners/ …

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    2. Grange‏ @Grange95 30 Dec 2017

      The CEO candidly stated the other factor used to set the drug's price was "the benefits it provides patients." In other words, this drug might save your life. How much in your bank account? Are your credit cards maxed? Got a 401(k)? We'll wait.

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    3. Grange‏ @Grange95 30 Dec 2017

      Sure drug companies need to turn a profit. And yes, profits on drugs have to also fund development of other drugs. But when a product is literally life & death, market forces are at odds with morality.

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    4. Grange‏ @Grange95 30 Dec 2017

      Economics state a product's value is what a willing buyer will pay for it. This works for cars, computers, clothes, vacations and all the other mundane stuff of consumerism.

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    5. Grange‏ @Grange95 30 Dec 2017

      But when your product is literally someone's life (or the life of a loved one), the market price is "all you've got."

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    6. Grange‏ @Grange95 30 Dec 2017

      "Your kid has cancer? Tough break. If you can scrape up a couple hundred thousand, let me know."

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    7. Grange‏ @Grange95 30 Dec 2017

      Absent regulation, these sorts of miracle drugs and therapies can be priced to the point only the wealthy can afford them.

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    8. Grange‏ @Grange95 30 Dec 2017

      Only a society which equates wealth with virtue would find it moral to let the market decide life & death. "Your kid got cancer? Bet you wish you'd gone into investment banking rather than teaching!"

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      Grange‏ @Grange95 30 Dec 2017

      This may be the fundamental moral question of our time. Do we still believe all humans have intrinsic worth independent of their economic value? Or are humans only valuable to the extent they can contribute through work and consumption?

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        1. jasonssimon‏ @jasonssimon 30 Dec 2017
          Replying to @Grange95

          A colleague of mine was meeting with a French health minister once who explained that he could treat 10 men with metastatic Prostate Cancer medication (FWIW Provenge, an engineered cell therapy) or all French children with ADHD 😕

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        1. jasonssimon‏ @jasonssimon 30 Dec 2017
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          Sadly, I think we all know where the majority of the current (R) party stands on this

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        1. David Mock‏ @davemock64 31 Dec 2017
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          Wholly dependent on context and who is making the valuation.

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        1. Ray Wang‏ @rwchicago 31 Dec 2017
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          Thank you for this thread and these powerful quotes that articulate things so well. #resist

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        1. John Brewer‏ @BrewerJohnP 31 Dec 2017
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          Surprising number of people equate a persons net worth to their worthiness. I was just blocked by a Facebook friend, in large part, because I pushed back on his posted belief that if you don't pay taxes, you shouldn't be allowed to vote.

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        1. Montysaurus‏ @DW_Montgomery 31 Dec 2017
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          Crazy question here - are you asking this of regular people, or prosperity-gospelist evangelical Republicans? Fairly certain that if the latter, it's a rhetorical question, no?

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        1. New2tweets‏ @cdech34 31 Dec 2017
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          Spouse has stage IV cancer. Both work FT. We pay double insurance. Ins. always tries to NOT pay. Constant battle. Ppl=no value, even when we pay & agreement in place-pay huge premiums, ins. provide services. Ins’s job to negotiate for us...so I thought. Profits=only true value 😢

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        1. Puckett‏ @puckett101 31 Dec 2017
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          Pretty sure that's just the definition of contemporary capitalism ;)

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        1. Trembling Milk. And the milk is also rotten too.‏ @SPmilkshake 31 Dec 2017
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          Trembling Milk. And the milk is also rotten too. Retweeted Grange

          damn, this is such a succinct threadhttps://twitter.com/grange95/status/947170379822350336 …

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          Grange @Grange95
          This may be the fundamental moral question of our time. Do we still believe all humans have intrinsic worth independent of their economic value? Or are humans only valuable to the extent they can contribute through work and consumption?
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