@freemo @georgetakei I don't see any changes after he took office... He seems to be holding up to his word, "nothing will fundamentally change."
I am not in the HC industry, so maybe what you see is behind the scenes??
@alanrycroft @georgetakei , and that could be done with a single new law, that insurance companies, states, and individuals may by their prescriptions from any source they wish, and that patents developed with public funds are open for use by the public.
This law protects corporate monopolies.
@LadyDragonfly @alanrycroft @georgetakei These 1st ten drug price negotiations take place in 2026. With over 20,000 drugs currently on the market, it is well over 1000 years until we negotiate for universal price controls.
There will be far more than the 10 or 15 negotiated drugs created per year... This isn't incremental progress, it is merely a slowing of the retardation of fair market pricing.
@georgetakei , those 10 drug negotiated prices don't start until 2026. He has pushed it off on the next administration.
@futurebird Why aren't the Shark Tank people throwing VC at you???
@freemo @georgetakei What part of our HC system do you attribute to Biden?
@TheBreadmonkey This is why there is a 2nd amendment.
@staidwinnow , I wonder if that is a logical position, or influenced by your personal experience? Someone out there has done their graduate work on this issue, and needs to weigh in...
That being said, I THINK they are the logical equivalent, and believe which you would assume more likely is based on trust issues. If you tend to trust people, then 'is my friend.' If you distrust people, then 'is my enemy.'
@staidwinnow , I think you are stating the same concept in either a negative or positive. And neither case is true, by default. Both cases MIGHT be true, you have to look at the individual conditions.
@pbump ya, don't worry, there is no chance Hillary... I mean BIDEN, can lose. No matter what the polls say...
@alan8325 @Free_Press , ya, which is why I stressed the value of infantry.
@burger_jaap , one day these will be everywhere:
https://www.aps.org/publications/apsnews/202301/sound-waves.cfm
@Free_Press Looks like A-3s too... I doubt there is a single tank that can match those. Now it is up to the crews (or infantry) to make the best use of them.
@koteisaev , agreed, but in this case, the level of tech needed is incredibly small. Little more than taking two subcritical masses and slamming them together to make a critical mass. This was all figured out well before the invention of a calculator. It doesn't take much to make a nuke. Even North Korea can do it, and they don't even have cars. Russia is fully capable of feilding viable nuclear weapons.
@gratefuldread , to be fair, if we don't address pollution and climate change, our kids won't be around in enough numbers to worry about guns.
I bet my girlfriend that this picture of our cats could get 10 billion boosts on Mastodon.
She said she doesn't believe me. She said there's only 13 million accounts on Mastodon. She said there aren't even 10 billion people on Earth. She said it concerns her that I struggle so hard to comprehend large numbers.
Let's prove her wrong everyone. Boost away and show her just how awesome the Mastodon community is.
So I'm finally basically done with twitter - now using it only to reply to people or promote products, but man does it suck for a lot of artists. Twitter was never a big part of my business, but for some people it was the popular streetcorner they did their work. For them it's just lost money that they won't get back. The modern all-social Internet is brutal.
@koteisaev @toallpointswest Also what is often overlooked is the technology to make a nuke is 80+ years old.
@black__elvis , Man, I think your girlfriend ghosted me. So maybe the letter was for me??
BS in Physics. Will not tolerate hate. I am active here and on Post.