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[–] 99 points 1 year ago (6 children)

It's pretty interesting to me that a Republican president is spending his honeymoon period dramatically raising taxes, but media doesn't frame it that way.

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  • [–] 61 points 1 year ago (4 children)

    It’s almost like a regressive tax that will primarily hurt the lower classes is 100% aligned with the capitalist class’s interests and the media is spineless.

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  • [–] 28 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    I don’t know how to do emoji replies (boomer) so please imagine a shocked pikachu here (young-coded, relatable)

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  • [–] 4 points 1 year ago

    You can do them by clicking on the little smiley face above the comment and searching for the one you're looking for, or you can use colons : and then with no space type in what you're looking for, a list of options should pop up (though it doesn't sometimes) and you can select from that.

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  • [–] 75 points 1 year ago* (3 children)

    me and my boys all take generics.

    but anyway, aren't like all of the drugs manufactured not in the US anymore?

    its kinda hilarious that the foundational centerpiece of the TPP was to keep drug licensing and manufacturing infrastructure of SE Asia and India firmly under the economic control of the US, and here Trump is just giving them every reason to strategically reorient toward China/Belt & Road integration.

    once again, JDPONDON strikes deep into the heart of american empire.

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  • [–] 31 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

    There are plenty of brand name drugs that are extremely useful and common. Eliquis, Xarelto, Jardiance, Januvia, all of the GLP-1s. That's just off the top of my head. This has the potential to explode drug prices for seniors, diabetics, people at risk for strokes and heart attacks, etc.

    I do not think brand name drugs should even exist but that is the reality of it.

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  • [–] 57 points 1 year ago (17 children)
  • [–] 23 points 1 year ago (5 children)

    Viagra and Cialis are both available generic

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  • [–] 15 points 1 year ago (4 children)

    Where's it manufactured though

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  • [–] 8 points 1 year ago (3 children)

    Doesn’t matter, they are no longer patented or branded. Read the article.

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  • [–] 1 point 1 year ago (2 children)

    doesn't it matter tho? if a generic medication is made outside of the US, it will be impacted by tariffs

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  • [–] 5 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    First sentence of the article:

    The U.S. will impose a 100% tariff on “all any branded or patented Pharmaceutical Product” entering the country from Oct. 1.

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  • [–] 2 points 1 year ago

    Ah the sentence about generic drugs becoming unprofitable or going bust confused me

    She added that there are “a lot of generic drugs specifically that could potentially have to make decisions between being unprofitable and pulling from the market entirely.”

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  • [–] 13 points 1 year ago (4 children)

    Where's the majority of the world's estrogen and testosterone manufactured?

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  • [–] 6 points 1 year ago (2 children)
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    Calling all cis to become the means of production for estrogen and testosterone. Liberate our trans comrades from the tyranny of capitalist owned factories, become the benevolent petit bourgeois, put your gonads to good use.

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  • [–] 55 points 1 year ago (5 children)

    Trumps like base of support is elderly white people. If he cuts off their supply of drugs a significant portion of those people are gonna croak. This seems like really bad planning even for him.

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  • [–] 38 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    nah the whole animating idea behind trump II's domestic policy is eugenics so this fits in perfectly with that. he knows that as long as he keeps demonizing immigrants and brown people on the other side of the world, his base are too racist and stupid to ever stop supporting him, no matter how much damage he does directly to them and their living conditions

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  • [–] 51 points 1 year ago* (2 children)

    Wow I'm sure this will help medical costs and will in no way just be used as an excuse for pharmaceutical companies to charge even more.

    It's definitely not gonna do what all of the other tariffs have done and just make things more expensive while companies choose to keep their existing supply chains and networks.

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  • [–] 48 points 1 year ago

    wow this is like, catastrophic for the healthcare system

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    investing 10 bucks in my shed in north dakota to produce ozempic or whatever the fuck, project deadline 2029

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  • [–] 36 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    Maybe I’ll finally hit my deductible

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  • [–] 22 points 1 year ago

    surely my insulin will not cost like $300 since it is manufactured in Denmark by Novo Nordisk. surely it won't be right...right....Mr. President right

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  • [–] 21 points 1 year ago

    What an ignorant fucking asshole. Why not a 300% tariff on food while you’re at it?

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  • [–] 19 points 1 year ago*

    Donald Trump Confirmed Follower of Grandfather Nurgle?? POG-19

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