• 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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      DW is a Putin outlet, like RT. Grain of salt with whatever they spew.

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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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            And that totally is wrong, too. But I feel that you are too far gone to notice the differences here

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              Yes, they are the International Broadcaster of the German state (Deutsche Welle isn’t Deutschlandradio which is a public broadcaster).
              No, you don’t have to take everything with a grain of salt like you’d do for RT.

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                You sir, might personally profit a lot from going out and touching some grass, and I mean actual, on the ground, growing grass. You know. Reality. Real things. Real, little things that other people deal with. Then, other, actual people. Less internet. A lot less of it, I’d say.

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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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          Fuckface. It looks like I can’t even answer you here publicly. Not even like I can answer you privatel. Ah well. Go fuck yourself you hypnotized Nazi sleepercell scumbag.

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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.