america is so fucking based man
in any proper country that company at least gets forced to pay by the government then ordered to shut down forever due to wanton cruelty. all the employees get generous severance except whoever made that call. depending upon your view of carceral punishment there are a few ways to go with that guy.
I’m not sure what’s worse, the insurance was cut or that a life saving drug is 2.1 million?!
What’s most pathetic is the scale. $2.1 million may seem like a lot for a single use drug, but that $2.1 mil loss dissipated out to shareholders probably isn’t so much. I don’t have the exact numbers but I’ll bet the loss of revenue isn’t even a blip to the average shareholder income.
They’re killing newborns based for what amounts to nothing to them. It’s sick.
What revenue are talking about?
Revenue is probably the wrong word. “Stock Price” or “value” or whatever. You know what I mean though.
No, I don’t know what you mean. Because you’re clearly confusing what insurers do and what pharmas do.
Wait, so Insurance companies aren’t publicly traded companies with stockholders? Dropping a covered drug so they wouldn’t have to pay out isn’t protecting their stock price? Maybe I am confused.
What are you even talking about? You are confused, mate.
I don’t think you understand how American health insurance companies work.
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In a statement, Chief Executive Officer Mike Poore told KCTV5:
“Global pharmaceutical companies are putting profitability over affordability, making it impossible for employers like our hospital system to bear the financial burden of these exorbitant drug prices.
In January 2024, Mosaic’s Health Care Trustees made the gut-wrenching decision not to cover expensive gene therapy used to treat ultra-rare diseases. Covering these treatments could cripple the financial viability of our health system, directly impacting our more than 4,000 employees and the approximately 270,000 people who rely on the health care we provide in small communities across four states.
We are working hard to help find alternative solutions and financial resources to help in this case. Bottom line: Families should not have to focus on the astronomical costs imposed by drug companies, but instead should be able to focus on the care of their children in a medical crisis.”
wow it’s almost like it’s a shitty fucking system and you’re very much a part of it.
from his linkedin:
“Mike is one of the finest men with whom I have ever worked. He relates well to and inspires his employees. He demands high quality while keeping his eye firmly on the bottom line. I would follow him anywhere!”
Maybe we shouldn’t make healthcare decisions while keeping our eyes on the bottom line, wow
Well thank god we don’t have any Death Panels from Obamacare though!
They weren’t really wrong about “Government Death Panels” thing they just neglected to mention that they already existed, and were staffed by MBA-executives there to make profit instead of boring government drones there to bide their time to collect a pension.
And they think they’re protected by that profit motive. Because they vastly overestimate how much their health and lives are actually worth. If you break it down by the numbers, they actually lose money the longer they keep you alive. At the moment you become a loss center instead of a profit center, they deny coverage.
Canada just beat us to it, is all.
Nother example of how much care for babies exists after theyre born
Your life ain’t worth a thing until you make money for the rich.
I do that and my life still isn’t worth anything to them
Your life will never mean ANYTHING to the rich
Well, stop being poor, problem solved.
We need medicare for all so that this doesn’t happen.
But then people who don’t look like me will get healthcare 😱
It might still be broken, needs to be paired with regulation on drug and doctor fees. I’m all for it, but it needs more so that we aren’t just writing a blank check to the medical industry.
Here’s their GoFundMe
Edit: see below, SomeoneElse is correct.
this is some martin shkrelli shit. Somebody needs to go to jail
NP just quit avocado toast
We should simply pay for research with tax money and make drug patents illegal. It still would not fix this issue. We also need some form of public insurance.
In this case, the only option is bankruptcy.
Well we already pay for research with tax money. So we got half of that going on.
Something about this insurer stinks. How long does it take to drop a drug from their coverage, usually? And did they know the twins would need this drug before the mother knew? If that’s the case, then her employer, who was also the insurance provider, had access to her healthcare records. They had access to all her information and likely paid her OB/GYN on the sly to tell them what was going on with the twins while in the womb.
This is literally the setup for the show Leverage
Something else needs cut, apparently.
One of the earliest uses of based is by 4chan users to describe things that were Nazi adjacent or fascist that celebrities and politicians would say and do. It was “based” because the idea is that they were doing the “right” thing even though it was unpopular often doing things like being ok with needless deaths because it also meant it pushed their fascist agenda. I think op is using it ironically in this case like those 4chan cretins use it.
Since then it’s been co-opted as the general Internet meme and that’s how most people know it now.
I only know it as “I approve of this”, not “lol, I don’t approve of this, but I say I am to be hilarious”. This is the danger of adopting this Nazi Internetspeak to be funny.
