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California to become first state to sell cheap insulin through state-backed program (lemmy.blahaj.zone)
submitted 11 months ago by to c/progressivepolitics@lemmy.world
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https://www.gov.ca.gov/2025/10/16/governor-newsom-announces-affordable-calrx-insulin-11-a-pen-will-soon-be-available-for-purchase/

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[–] 22 points 11 months ago (7 children)

In fact, before this admin, we gave many medicines all over the world to developing nations.

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  • [–] 11 points 11 months ago (6 children)

    Which was also an payout to big pharma. And we illegally used those programs to sneak in spies. While we’re blocking Cuba from distributing cancer vaccines and covid vaccines.

    Let’s not pretend we were good before this.

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  • [–] 3 points 11 months ago (5 children)

    There have been plenty of people involved in those programs talking about them online since they were repealed and that they aren't motivated at the politcal level by altruism and that they have done an incredible amount of good in the world are both true statements.

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  • [–] -1 points 11 months ago (4 children)

    Are you going to be grateful someone came to your home to give you medicine, if they use it to sneak in someone who will burn down your home?

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  • [–] 2 points 11 months ago (1 child)

    Surviving; paying attention; ensuring your family's security and hopefully that of your community are all in no way mutually exclusive. Kooky deflective narrative.

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  • [–] 2 points 11 months ago (1 child)

    What a terminally online hypothetical. IRL, people are insanely grateful to get free medicine and crushed that it's gone.

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  • [–] -1 points 11 months ago

    There’s a growing number of countries that refuse to allow aid orgs in, due to the continued illegal use of them to smuggle in intelligence officers. Not what I would call “insanely grateful.”

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