Why not trade those stocks in for stocks of companies that support conservative news? Last month I was watching a commercial on OAN and saw this one product so went to research it to see if they sold stock. I found its parent company and bought two shares. That stock has been climbing ever since and now close to $70 profit!!
I don't own individual stocks in big pharma. I own a couple of healthcare and biotech mutual funds in IRA's. You can't switch IRA's very easily without a tax penalty.
I have some IRA's in S&P 500, which has big pharma in it
I was referring to the fact that if you have multiple IRA's you can only transfer out one of them per year. As a side point, I don't trade with my retirement accounts, I keep those in funds, it is safer. I do have a brokerage account with a relatively small amount, that I play with
I worked as a designer in 2 big pharm companies and I saw it...if Italy paid nine bucks we paid 50 bucks...big Pharma overflowed with corrupt Rhino execs....it was criminal
So true. Look at all the drug commercials on TV nowadays. Back in the 70’s and 80’s, most commercials were cars and washers when America used to manufacture things.
You should see the cost of a knee replacement when the cost is all broken down. It should be $3-4k but instead it’s pushing 40k these days. It’s quite a long post so I will save you the trouble of reading. Glad your meds are cheap and you can spend your money on what you want to.
That is a flaw with American courts in general. While going through law classes here, my prof talked of it this way, "we don't charge for hurt feelings", in terms of the terms of "pain and suffering". You need to prove financial harm. Therapy? That's billable hours, put it on the lawsuit. You became frightened of supermarkets and therefore need to buy at boutiques and think this psychological injury merits 5 million? No, no charging for hurt feelings. See a shrink to get over it, and charge for the shrink.
America lets you charge arbitary amounts for psychological distress.Someone sought millions because their XboX Live crashed. While it can be hard to put a pricetag on such, and people should be "made whole" by the legal process, I do think it is a huge flaw of the American system and leads to a lot of the negative reputation of your legal system, rife for abuse, which in turn leads to the medical liability insurance, shop insurances, etc, which in turn leads to not caring about your fellow man because there could be a legal danger in doing so as apologizing is considered an admission of guilt in non-Canadian courts of law, so you are encouraged to be aloof in these matters because helping and paying 4k to get someone a cast and ambulance ride is one thing, but paying 40k for it since they need to cover their malpractice frivolous get-rich-quick lawsuits, PLUS 100k because now they're scared of walking or some shit, leads to a worse society. IMO.
People need to get over themselves. If "get over it, and tell us how much it costed to get over it" was the base rule of law, a lot of these problems would get resolved.
Exactly. It's the know-nothing Karens and faux-concerned politicians that are the problem, not the "Big Pharma" boogeyman. If Big Pharma was a real issue, you wouldn't see a single generic, OTC medication. You'd be turning tricks just to manage seasonal allergies.
Big Pharma is real. You see generics because their patents expire. Thankfully the laws regarding that are firm, and haven't been changed. Big Pharma gets a window to profit - and boy, do they. After that, the generics appear, and they lower their prices to match.
Wrong. Mylan has a patent on Epi-Pens till 2025, yet a generic was approved by the FDA back in 2018. A patent isn't some magical tool that prevents competition. If anything, it encourages competition because it gives you a precise blueprint on what the product you're planning on competing with is made of, how it's designed, etc.
Who's shilling? The point is that a ton of people are too shallow to look into any issue further than "big system is evil, must destroy". See the other dude's comment about patents, proof that they don't understand how patents work.
My mother went in for a knee replacement, unfortunately she never came home. This was 5 years ago. I remember reading into the costs and the most affordable place was on Oklahoma City for $6k, the most expensive $250k in Boston.
Way to many have their hands deep into a giant pocket. That and many that forget it's a person and not a product they are dealing with.
Americans helped fund Europe’s free healthcare systems for decades through these wealth transference schemes - Americans get fucked with overpriced medicines while the Europeans pay next to nothing, and the balance sheet is all evened out. Now that this gravy train is derailing, looks like they will need to jack up their effective tax rate to about 75% to keep it “free”.
The issue with European health care systems is they're largely government run. Which means with say the UK and the NHS, you're negotiating with a client with 70 million customers.
This gives them huge leeway in negotiations due to their sheer buying power. If all the European healthcare systems decide to collectively bargain and demand similar treatment (and they do), that's a market twice the size of the US, at 740 million customers.
Even selling at a steep discount creates huge profits. It's no different from why Wallmart and Amazon can sell so low - they use their size and market share to buy bulk and demand discounts.
Sure, you could shut them out. But the you create an unrecoverable PR disaster when people die, lose billions from those even discounted sales, and make European nations change patent laws and make generics themselves.
Which would of course create a trade war in response, which would hurt everyone in the West.
If I had that kind of price difference, I'd be shouting from the tree tops. Don't be so hard on yourself. There isn't a person here who hasn't made a mistake. You have done what you could to straighten it out. Well done!
Seriously it's all true! We were being f***** by big Pharma this whole time, the Liberals were right this whole time about these people! And they can't even be happy about it now because Trump's the one who's did it
If Obama did this liberals would be bowing down before him.
by the way any lingering doubt I had about hydroxychloroquine being cut out by the same jerks has now been totally destroyed
This is amazing but shows how much the American people have been ROBBED by big pharma for years. Every time a European or Canadian brags about their "free healthcare" I just want to tell them they should thank Americans for subsidizing it for decades.
Honestly it should've been criminal what these big pharma companies did, but I know they'll never get punished. Also idk if it's possible but it would be amazing if someone could make a website showing the difference in prices of these medications before and after Trump. That would be the biggest redpill of all.
I've talked to a lot of Canadians and they almost all dislike it and are dejected by not being able to do anything about it. The ones I hear shilling for Canadian or European healthcare are Americans who are under their parents' health plan.
I doubt those leftist cunts are still under their parents' plan because I tried that shit with Obamacare a few years ago and it didn't work. I got my own plan.
It covers up to the mid twenties, like 24 or so. Don't forget that a few years in schools and social media creates another generation of leftists. It's been like a decade. Since there were so many kids during that time, basically anyone who was in the 1-14 year range back when it started could be indoctrinated into shilling for it. That's not counting the people who are not eligible for it.
The fact that psilocybin/mushrooms, mescaline/peyote, mdma, lsd, and DMT remain schedule 1 and difficult if not impossible to study, although at least half already have shown extreme promise to aid a host of mental disorders from the scant studies allowed, is a crime against humanity, medically speaking. Ask why in 2020 we have potential hero drugs unavailable for study because of arbitrary decisions made 5 decades ago.
They complain about our healthcare system being trash, but they don't want to talk about how the left (and the RINOs) were the ones who destroyed it in the first place.
Not everyone else, a lot of people got subsidies, but if your income was even a dollar over the qualifying amount for subsidies, you got completely screwed, because not only did you pay full price, but your costs were also jacked up to cover everyone else's subsidies
I hear you. My insurance was always free through work, never paid anything but some copays. Within obamas 8 years was almost 10k a year between weekly payments and 3k deductible. Thanks Obama
To get the best goodrx prices, put in the exact drug and amount of pills etc. If you just hand them a generic goodrx card you pay more. Write it down or show it from your phone, some pharmacies make you go to another window first before buying.
Nah my comment is still pretty unaffected by the change. There still was originally a $1000 price (with insurance) which was brought down 50% to $500 with a coupon.
The new price drop from $500 to $300 with coupons is still a pretty big difference. A 40% drop in price.
Sorry for me being uninformed pedes but why did drug prices get reduced so heavily all of the sudden? Did Trump sign an executive order before the RNC that skimmed past me? Can I get a transcript if possible?
TL;DR Trump changed some regulations on “most favored nation” trade rules that basically mean we pay whatever the cheapest price is anywhere on Earth. These discounts aren’t random, they’re what everyone else was paying this whole time
Not an American, but I have been following Trump's moves on this way before. He has bit by bit working on this a year or two before. I think he was pushing it to be done by Congress, rather than EO.
Last July, Trump finally couldn't wait, and did it by 4 Executive Orders.
Trump demonstrating that when you cut out the corrupt crony-capitalists, socialised medicine becomes unnecessary because prices decrease, thus enabling people to afford the product.
Look at glasses in general. Getting some glass and cutting it to match your specification (which is done by a machine) costs a few dollars at most. But then for some reason a pair of glasses is often over one hundred dollars, and even well beyond that.
People love taking advantage of capitalism. Make something, drive out or buy out the competition and then charge whatever and pay off the people that are suppose to stop it.
Yeah, it's kinda scary cause "what if something goes wrong" but the whole thing took like 5 minutes and it was actually a pretty cool experience. It was like a light show in my eye. Being able to just see when you wake up is something a lot of people take for granted. I'd definitely do it again.
Insurance has generally stopped funding medically necessary contacts. Without my contacts, I'm legally blind. Can't drive. Can't see the big E at the top of the chart - What chart! Medically necessary needs to be addressed as well.
It is Trumps strategy, he takes one of their big issues or talking points before the election and either solves it or makes them look like liars. Back in 2016 when everyone thought Bernie would be the nominee when he was leading, they were saying legalizing weed would be a move Trump made in order to wreck his campaign since weed was big on the opponents ticket.
He just does not show his cards, there is a reason on some big topics he makes few and vague comments. He doesn't want his opponents to know his solid stance, so he can wreck them with it if need be.
I try to stay off medication, but the antibiotic I used recently was $5 out of pocket before being reimbursed by my HSA
I have no frame of reference for this cost because it's probably been over a decade for me without meds, but it seemed less expensive than I would've guessed
I did not tolerate it well and stopped taking it after day 2 of 10
I was not sure if these posts were real until my wife's medication went from $30 to less than $1. I know it's not as impactful as the OP, but I wanted to share another valid data point.
I am so thankful for President Trump, and now see how Pharma was screwing us!
Yeah some how my health insurance got a bit cheaper for the first time since Obama skyrocketed it and my Rxs have been a lot more affordable. Magic wand.
If he bought them in store at a place like CVS, they do accept prescription returns. Just know it is not as simple as a regular return, will probably confuse a lot of people, including your doctor who will have to issue a new prescription. But if the difference in cost is worth it to you, then you decide if that is worth it. I bet calling the pharmacy to check the price will do.
All need to tell everyone they can about the reductions - these could make 2% to 5% of others vote Republican, which is the road to a landslide considering Trump has 36% of blacks approval now (Rasmussen) which should translate to 25+% in black votes (VS 8% in 2016).
I tell you, Trump is a genius, he knew the Dems would try steal the election, and he laid plans quite a while ago to combat them.
before Obamacare, my first job was in fast food. High school kid. Full insurance and benefits, 401k with a match, medical/dental/vision/all that. 40+ hours a week with plenty of OT if I wanted it (as a high school kid, I didn't).
Obamacare fucked things up bigly. Hell, today college graduates consider it a success if they can get that kind of benefits package and overtime opportunity.
I've wondered if insurance should even cover drugs that are needed on a regular basis
I'm not talking about not covering drugs for short term illnesses, but the long term stuff like blood pressure, psychiatric, etc
The reason being it's not really insuring anything because it's always needed
If people had to pay for it directly then prices would have to come down to what people can actually pay instead of what the insurance company will pay
I use quercetin and Vitamin C, both help reduce histamine. I began reacting to most allergy meds and had to researce alternatives. Interesting that both also help against Wuflu.
Costco has deals on OTC Allergy meds, especially generics. You can get additional savings if the meds are featured in the coupon book. Nasacort 3 pack has a 7.50 off coupon (automatically deducted) until Aug 30, for example. Some people have said that they keep memberships just for the allergy med savings.
Heard a similar story from a girl I follow on Twitter. She had an eating disorder during her first pregnancy and had pre-term labor and it was super rough. She's better and is pregnant again but has to get a shot or something to help with that so it doesn't happen this time, and the price went from like $3700 a shot to $300 or something like that.
This tweet would be good to have some replies on, Pedes. The Democratic party of Illinois is asking why this person believes Trump had anything to do with drug prices going down. Ummmm.... did they miss the order?
I only have 1 comment. I'm not concerned about your fuckup and well done for cleaning up - what is the product exactly for and does it work? I'm a lung cancer sufferer so I doubt it's for me but I look at all products with hope. Thanks and God bless.
Dummy me always wondered why medications had to cost so much. I want the patent owners or whoever to make a profit, but does it have to be a 500% profit? Same thing with higher education. Let's meet make it free, just cheaper. Or does that sound crazy? Idk I'm just a deplorable white supremacist straight male from Podunk Kansas. You know, just the type of people who supply a portion of the food for our citizens.
Best thing about Trump is he is a classy, ritzy, city boy, but he can talk to lineman, plumbers, truckers, farmers, etc like he studied that field. Greatest president since Abe, no doubt. Possibly, the most important.
No worries - we all make mistakes. The important thing is that you corrected it and stand by it. Price reduction was 40%, which is still pretty amazing.
How can it change so fast? Trump said today please remember I did that. He said it could take months to kick in and was afraid if Biden won he would take credit (jokingly)
I didnt see any screenshot proving it.. OP just made an update... It has NOT kicked in yet, so if OP pays 300 instead of 500, it should go down even more in a couple of months.. so that's good
Well I upvoted you anyways for editing your comment, correcting your mistake. That happens a lot so no worries. Glad you edited your comment and I truly appreciate your transparency!
Yeah please send an email to WH so they know what he did! Bless you Pede.
This!!! The administration needs to hear these stories.
Price transparency is already making its way through the courts. If Cuckface Roberts doesn't hijack it in SCOTUS, it's pretty much fixed.
I don’t like those odds.
Ross Perot might've been able to. Dangerous and intelligent outsiders, both of them.
Many such stories!!!
God protect President Trump!!
My big pharma stocks are going to take a beating, but I'll gladly take the hit for the good of the country
Correct thinking.
Why not trade those stocks in for stocks of companies that support conservative news? Last month I was watching a commercial on OAN and saw this one product so went to research it to see if they sold stock. I found its parent company and bought two shares. That stock has been climbing ever since and now close to $70 profit!!
I don't own individual stocks in big pharma. I own a couple of healthcare and biotech mutual funds in IRA's. You can't switch IRA's very easily without a tax penalty.
I have some IRA's in S&P 500, which has big pharma in it
You can roll an ira into a custodial account at a brokerage and trade at will, all within your ira. Not a 401k, until you leave your company
Maybe I am wrong, but I think you are limited to doing that to one IRA per year.
Not sure about rolling it over multiple times, but it only takes one time. Roll it over into etrade.com and start trading all you want.
I was referring to the fact that if you have multiple IRA's you can only transfer out one of them per year. As a side point, I don't trade with my retirement accounts, I keep those in funds, it is safer. I do have a brokerage account with a relatively small amount, that I play with
Hell at this rate you might be at the RNC on Thrusday
Just read this out to the family here and we are Cheering for you....We have the BEST POTUS ever!!!!!
I worked as a designer in 2 big pharm companies and I saw it...if Italy paid nine bucks we paid 50 bucks...big Pharma overflowed with corrupt Rhino execs....it was criminal
Then get rid of the stupid fucking commercials. Pharmaceutical commercials suck.
So true. Look at all the drug commercials on TV nowadays. Back in the 70’s and 80’s, most commercials were cars and washers when America used to manufacture things.
You should see the cost of a knee replacement when the cost is all broken down. It should be $3-4k but instead it’s pushing 40k these days. It’s quite a long post so I will save you the trouble of reading. Glad your meds are cheap and you can spend your money on what you want to.
It's almost like the FDA not allowing competition and ambulance chasers requiring millions in liability insurances make medicine expensive.
That is a flaw with American courts in general. While going through law classes here, my prof talked of it this way, "we don't charge for hurt feelings", in terms of the terms of "pain and suffering". You need to prove financial harm. Therapy? That's billable hours, put it on the lawsuit. You became frightened of supermarkets and therefore need to buy at boutiques and think this psychological injury merits 5 million? No, no charging for hurt feelings. See a shrink to get over it, and charge for the shrink.
America lets you charge arbitary amounts for psychological distress.Someone sought millions because their XboX Live crashed. While it can be hard to put a pricetag on such, and people should be "made whole" by the legal process, I do think it is a huge flaw of the American system and leads to a lot of the negative reputation of your legal system, rife for abuse, which in turn leads to the medical liability insurance, shop insurances, etc, which in turn leads to not caring about your fellow man because there could be a legal danger in doing so as apologizing is considered an admission of guilt in non-Canadian courts of law, so you are encouraged to be aloof in these matters because helping and paying 4k to get someone a cast and ambulance ride is one thing, but paying 40k for it since they need to cover their malpractice frivolous get-rich-quick lawsuits, PLUS 100k because now they're scared of walking or some shit, leads to a worse society. IMO.
People need to get over themselves. If "get over it, and tell us how much it costed to get over it" was the base rule of law, a lot of these problems would get resolved.
Exactly. It's the know-nothing Karens and faux-concerned politicians that are the problem, not the "Big Pharma" boogeyman. If Big Pharma was a real issue, you wouldn't see a single generic, OTC medication. You'd be turning tricks just to manage seasonal allergies.
Big Pharma is real. You see generics because their patents expire. Thankfully the laws regarding that are firm, and haven't been changed. Big Pharma gets a window to profit - and boy, do they. After that, the generics appear, and they lower their prices to match.
Wrong. Mylan has a patent on Epi-Pens till 2025, yet a generic was approved by the FDA back in 2018. A patent isn't some magical tool that prevents competition. If anything, it encourages competition because it gives you a precise blueprint on what the product you're planning on competing with is made of, how it's designed, etc.
Don't waist your life shilling for corporations that have gutted 🇺🇸. Half these corporations are monopolies and need tearing down.
Who's shilling? The point is that a ton of people are too shallow to look into any issue further than "big system is evil, must destroy". See the other dude's comment about patents, proof that they don't understand how patents work.
I worked in Ortho, it's true. A case at cost is a few grand tops, the markup through the reimbursement chain to ultimate invoice price is unreal.
My mother went in for a knee replacement, unfortunately she never came home. This was 5 years ago. I remember reading into the costs and the most affordable place was on Oklahoma City for $6k, the most expensive $250k in Boston.
Way to many have their hands deep into a giant pocket. That and many that forget it's a person and not a product they are dealing with.
That place in OKC is the best.
Wow, $3-4k would be totally reasonable even without insurance.
What do you want to bet that the whole reason there's a universal healthcare issue is so that we can have a universal healthcare issue?
Americans helped fund Europe’s free healthcare systems for decades through these wealth transference schemes - Americans get fucked with overpriced medicines while the Europeans pay next to nothing, and the balance sheet is all evened out. Now that this gravy train is derailing, looks like they will need to jack up their effective tax rate to about 75% to keep it “free”.
You are somebody who's been paying attention. I like you. (No homo)
Yes and no.
The issue with European health care systems is they're largely government run. Which means with say the UK and the NHS, you're negotiating with a client with 70 million customers.
This gives them huge leeway in negotiations due to their sheer buying power. If all the European healthcare systems decide to collectively bargain and demand similar treatment (and they do), that's a market twice the size of the US, at 740 million customers.
Even selling at a steep discount creates huge profits. It's no different from why Wallmart and Amazon can sell so low - they use their size and market share to buy bulk and demand discounts.
Sure, you could shut them out. But the you create an unrecoverable PR disaster when people die, lose billions from those even discounted sales, and make European nations change patent laws and make generics themselves.
Which would of course create a trade war in response, which would hurt everyone in the West.
THIS!!! ^^^
This is exactly why Big Pharma and the Dems have been so desperately attacking him over this. They knew the bloom was coming off the ruse.
As more and more people start realizing how much their medical costs are plummeting, this will be possibly the biggest redpill ever.
NP. Everyone makes mistakes.
If I had that kind of price difference, I'd be shouting from the tree tops. Don't be so hard on yourself. There isn't a person here who hasn't made a mistake. You have done what you could to straighten it out. Well done!
And guess what our POS politicians presented as the only option?
Buying drugs from CA like a fucking beggar. When they knew this was possible all along.
holy shit... I can see why Trump said, "you might not see me for a bit" a few weeks ago... he done gone and fucked over a mafia.
My thoughts exactly. Taking on big pharma is more dangerous than taking on the mafia.
Seriously it's all true! We were being f***** by big Pharma this whole time, the Liberals were right this whole time about these people! And they can't even be happy about it now because Trump's the one who's did it
If Obama did this liberals would be bowing down before him.
by the way any lingering doubt I had about hydroxychloroquine being cut out by the same jerks has now been totally destroyed
The Fugitive is a documentary.
Truth. They are a criminal racket.
Yep. Drain the swamp in big pharma. Release the cures!
This is amazing but shows how much the American people have been ROBBED by big pharma for years. Every time a European or Canadian brags about their "free healthcare" I just want to tell them they should thank Americans for subsidizing it for decades.
Honestly it should've been criminal what these big pharma companies did, but I know they'll never get punished. Also idk if it's possible but it would be amazing if someone could make a website showing the difference in prices of these medications before and after Trump. That would be the biggest redpill of all.
They'll get punished.
They'll wish they were punished in this life too...
I've talked to a lot of Canadians and they almost all dislike it and are dejected by not being able to do anything about it. The ones I hear shilling for Canadian or European healthcare are Americans who are under their parents' health plan.
I doubt those leftist cunts are still under their parents' plan because I tried that shit with Obamacare a few years ago and it didn't work. I got my own plan.
It covers up to the mid twenties, like 24 or so. Don't forget that a few years in schools and social media creates another generation of leftists. It's been like a decade. Since there were so many kids during that time, basically anyone who was in the 1-14 year range back when it started could be indoctrinated into shilling for it. That's not counting the people who are not eligible for it.
For those in school I believe.
The fact that psilocybin/mushrooms, mescaline/peyote, mdma, lsd, and DMT remain schedule 1 and difficult if not impossible to study, although at least half already have shown extreme promise to aid a host of mental disorders from the scant studies allowed, is a crime against humanity, medically speaking. Ask why in 2020 we have potential hero drugs unavailable for study because of arbitrary decisions made 5 decades ago.
They complain about our healthcare system being trash, but they don't want to talk about how the left (and the RINOs) were the ones who destroyed it in the first place.
Hope you get better dude!
Obama Care was only Affordable to The Elites who put him in there, everybody else suffered under it!
I hope you Tell your friends and family and ask if they are registered to vote, we can keep these good things going as long as Trump is in the WH!
Not everyone else, a lot of people got subsidies, but if your income was even a dollar over the qualifying amount for subsidies, you got completely screwed, because not only did you pay full price, but your costs were also jacked up to cover everyone else's subsidies
my buddy used to say, 'its not affordable, they dont care and it is an act'
The elites exempted themselves. It was only affordable as subsidized gibs to the poor. Everyone else got fucked.
I hear you. My insurance was always free through work, never paid anything but some copays. Within obamas 8 years was almost 10k a year between weekly payments and 3k deductible. Thanks Obama
Before obamacare made insurance affordable for everyone, I paid $475 month for great insurance. It went to $1700 and half the coverage.
The truth about Obamacare
Didn’t click it, but I’m sure i can summarize for the lazy pedes like me;
It sucks.
The fact that there was a coupon that could save you $500 should a hint that something was fucky in the first place.
To get the best goodrx prices, put in the exact drug and amount of pills etc. If you just hand them a generic goodrx card you pay more. Write it down or show it from your phone, some pharmacies make you go to another window first before buying.
Nah my comment is still pretty unaffected by the change. There still was originally a $1000 price (with insurance) which was brought down 50% to $500 with a coupon.
The new price drop from $500 to $300 with coupons is still a pretty big difference. A 40% drop in price.
That's still an impressive price drop.
Trump is curing cancer. Praise Kek!
Sorry for me being uninformed pedes but why did drug prices get reduced so heavily all of the sudden? Did Trump sign an executive order before the RNC that skimmed past me? Can I get a transcript if possible?
TL;DR Trump changed some regulations on “most favored nation” trade rules that basically mean we pay whatever the cheapest price is anywhere on Earth. These discounts aren’t random, they’re what everyone else was paying this whole time
Raise prices elsewhere just to even it out. Socialized healthcare exists in many other countries because the US was subsidizing it till now.
Double whammy!
Kill two birds with one stone!
This is totally in effect now? Everything is now immediately more affordable?
Yep. Twitter can’t keep a lid on it trending. This is a literal red pill being shoved sideways up America’s collective asshole
Holy shit. Promises made. Promises kept.
Is this red pill discounted now due to the executive order?
Got a # to search?
Yep!!!! You and me and other pedes have been hip all along 😉 謁４░ｍｏｒｅ░ｙｅａｒｓ！ （ラン謁
Not an American, but I have been following Trump's moves on this way before. He has bit by bit working on this a year or two before. I think he was pushing it to be done by Congress, rather than EO. Last July, Trump finally couldn't wait, and did it by 4 Executive Orders.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Szy0OPBG6wY
None of this will be permanent unless Americans give Trump majority on both House and Senate.
didnt you hear? Our supreme court has ruled EOs are now effectively permanent.
At least for dems.
Trump demonstrating that when you cut out the corrupt crony-capitalists, socialised medicine becomes unnecessary because prices decrease, thus enabling people to afford the product.
Promises made, promises kept.
Why pay the high price in taxes when you can just make it cheap for everyone for free!
Now do eye contacts. $700 for some top tier daily eye contacts for 1 year supply.
These people making eye contacts for decades must be making a fortune selling the same shit each year.
$80 a box for me
Look at glasses in general. Getting some glass and cutting it to match your specification (which is done by a machine) costs a few dollars at most. But then for some reason a pair of glasses is often over one hundred dollars, and even well beyond that.
The prescription glasses industry has been under a monopoly for quite some time. It's why the prices are jacked up so high.
People love taking advantage of capitalism. Make something, drive out or buy out the competition and then charge whatever and pay off the people that are suppose to stop it.
Get Lasik! One of the bestest decisions of my life so far
Scares the heck out of be tbh
Yeah, it's kinda scary cause "what if something goes wrong" but the whole thing took like 5 minutes and it was actually a pretty cool experience. It was like a light show in my eye. Being able to just see when you wake up is something a lot of people take for granted. I'd definitely do it again.
Yeah I think about it often. Might actually get it done one day. I keep coming back to all the opthalmologist I know with glasses tho.
Not an option for everyone. It can also cause major issues for some.
Insurance has generally stopped funding medically necessary contacts. Without my contacts, I'm legally blind. Can't drive. Can't see the big E at the top of the chart - What chart! Medically necessary needs to be addressed as well.
Fly them out in helicopters
Not sure that's big enough. Can a C5 open the rear ramp in flight?
It is Trumps strategy, he takes one of their big issues or talking points before the election and either solves it or makes them look like liars. Back in 2016 when everyone thought Bernie would be the nominee when he was leading, they were saying legalizing weed would be a move Trump made in order to wreck his campaign since weed was big on the opponents ticket.
He just does not show his cards, there is a reason on some big topics he makes few and vague comments. He doesn't want his opponents to know his solid stance, so he can wreck them with it if need be.
Praise Trump!
Cant wait to go in and get my prescription next time. Its not very expensive but I just want to see if it got cheaper.
I try to stay off medication, but the antibiotic I used recently was $5 out of pocket before being reimbursed by my HSA
I have no frame of reference for this cost because it's probably been over a decade for me without meds, but it seemed less expensive than I would've guessed
I did not tolerate it well and stopped taking it after day 2 of 10
I do not like pharmaceuticals
I think it might. I've read an August 24th effective date, but I'm not certain it's explicitly causal yet. Still reading up on it.
I feel you. I plan to wait a few days to get a few more takes before I go around stating it as fact. I'm hopeful though!
August 24th, at noon..
“Lower med prices are racist and people will die” -probably Nancy Pelosi
I dare her to actually try to say this is a bad thing.
the drug companies have been making us pay while giving the rest of the world free rides, it's over
I was not sure if these posts were real until my wife's medication went from $30 to less than $1. I know it's not as impactful as the OP, but I wanted to share another valid data point.
I am so thankful for President Trump, and now see how Pharma was screwing us!
trumpRX
"Stop upvoting"
Make me stop motherfucker!
"That gorilla hit that gorilla good!"
Yeah some how my health insurance got a bit cheaper for the first time since Obama skyrocketed it and my Rxs have been a lot more affordable. Magic wand.
Can’t wait to see what my $230 month meds drop to. I just bought 3 months last week.
If he bought them in store at a place like CVS, they do accept prescription returns. Just know it is not as simple as a regular return, will probably confuse a lot of people, including your doctor who will have to issue a new prescription. But if the difference in cost is worth it to you, then you decide if that is worth it. I bet calling the pharmacy to check the price will do.
All need to tell everyone they can about the reductions - these could make 2% to 5% of others vote Republican, which is the road to a landslide considering Trump has 36% of blacks approval now (Rasmussen) which should translate to 25+% in black votes (VS 8% in 2016).
I tell you, Trump is a genius, he knew the Dems would try steal the election, and he laid plans quite a while ago to combat them.
I'm a bit confused. Is there still any price drop at all? You said 500 to 300 with coupon, but what about with coupon. Did it drop from $1000?
before Obamacare, my first job was in fast food. High school kid. Full insurance and benefits, 401k with a match, medical/dental/vision/all that. 40+ hours a week with plenty of OT if I wanted it (as a high school kid, I didn't).
Obamacare fucked things up bigly. Hell, today college graduates consider it a success if they can get that kind of benefits package and overtime opportunity.
Hah! Upvoted for honesty!
In yo face, Pede!
I've wondered if insurance should even cover drugs that are needed on a regular basis
I'm not talking about not covering drugs for short term illnesses, but the long term stuff like blood pressure, psychiatric, etc
The reason being it's not really insuring anything because it's always needed
If people had to pay for it directly then prices would have to come down to what people can actually pay instead of what the insurance company will pay
I could be totally wrong and misguided though
I wonder if this might trickle down to OTC medicines as well ? It would be nice to get some allergy medication for 90 days for less than 50 dollars.
I've tried a few allergy meds, but a natural one called "butterbur" worked best. Standardized for sesquiterpenes. Avoid the super cheap brand.
I use quercetin and Vitamin C, both help reduce histamine. I began reacting to most allergy meds and had to researce alternatives. Interesting that both also help against Wuflu.
Costco has deals on OTC Allergy meds, especially generics. You can get additional savings if the meds are featured in the coupon book. Nasacort 3 pack has a 7.50 off coupon (automatically deducted) until Aug 30, for example. Some people have said that they keep memberships just for the allergy med savings.
I was wondering that. Good question!
Heard a similar story from a girl I follow on Twitter. She had an eating disorder during her first pregnancy and had pre-term labor and it was super rough. She's better and is pregnant again but has to get a shot or something to help with that so it doesn't happen this time, and the price went from like $3700 a shot to $300 or something like that.
LoL I posted wrong math a couple nights ago. It happens to all of us pede.
Glad they camd down in price & offer some thanks to God for the relief as well.
So now when will our insurance premiums decrease?
If insurance companies are paying less, when will they pass the savings on to us?
If not for Paul Ryan we would have insurance reform.
Holy shit!
Makes me realize how we've been screwed over for this prices for decades!! wow
This can never be undone now. Ppl will flip out
Any website links to these things? I'd like to spread the word
Seconded.
I cannot find a single news outlet reporting on this yet. I just compiled some links though to send to a friend:
90-day medication was $1339 - today it is $251 https://twitter.com/MichaelMontalt2/status/1297923917286461442
Person now pays 1/3 of what prescription used to cost. Pharmacist told him "President Trump did something." https://twitter.com/goteamkirk/status/1297977903091781636
$48 medication is now $1.54 https://twitter.com/i/status/1297681920776646665
Cancer medication is $4800 month - is now $100 https://twitter.com/the_mtn_goat/status/1297745340922245126
$10 medication is now .67 https://twitter.com/Alex_Dixon2/status/1297929931045982211
$90/month medication is now $15 https://thedonald.win/p/GvKPy6uP/my-wifes-meds/
$500 chemo cream is now $18: https://thedonald.win/p/GvKPzlKz/the-stories-are-true-i-had-a-top/c/
More from this board - new thread https://thedonald.win/p/GvKPy6uO/i-love-geotus-this-takes-effect-/c/
And another with lots of Twitter screenshots of lower prices: https://thedonald.win/p/GvKOruJd/literal-red-pills-spread-far-and/c/
Edit: I keep finding more!
$374 to $26: https://twitter.com/RequiredName4/status/1298063552020918272
This tweet would be good to have some replies on, Pedes. The Democratic party of Illinois is asking why this person believes Trump had anything to do with drug prices going down. Ummmm.... did they miss the order?
Excellent work compiling this 😀😀😀
We're asking for what specific drug he is talking about.
Get well soon pede!
I only have 1 comment. I'm not concerned about your fuckup and well done for cleaning up - what is the product exactly for and does it work? I'm a lung cancer sufferer so I doubt it's for me but I look at all products with hope. Thanks and God bless.
Big Pharma is Big Mad.
Thank God. And screw big pharma.
Dummy me always wondered why medications had to cost so much. I want the patent owners or whoever to make a profit, but does it have to be a 500% profit? Same thing with higher education. Let's meet make it free, just cheaper. Or does that sound crazy? Idk I'm just a deplorable white supremacist straight male from Podunk Kansas. You know, just the type of people who supply a portion of the food for our citizens.
Best thing about Trump is he is a classy, ritzy, city boy, but he can talk to lineman, plumbers, truckers, farmers, etc like he studied that field. Greatest president since Abe, no doubt. Possibly, the most important.
No worries - we all make mistakes. The important thing is that you corrected it and stand by it. Price reduction was 40%, which is still pretty amazing.
Chemo cream is a thing? I really only know the chemo as a liquid but a cream i did not know about.
That sounds like the topical cream used to treat melanomas on the nose?
My dermo prescribed that for me a few years ago. It was like $3000 per tube. My wife threw it out before I got a chance to use it.
Did I mention she made meatloaf after that? I love that woman's meatloaf.
big pharma hates him. I pray for the Secret Service every day to keep the Peoples President safe!!
Pocket voter normies in the middle are now instantly red pilled by presidential action. What is there not to love about our president?
How can it change so fast? Trump said today please remember I did that. He said it could take months to kick in and was afraid if Biden won he would take credit (jokingly)
It might have just started kicking in today, but I have read multiple posts like this.
I didnt see any screenshot proving it.. OP just made an update... It has NOT kicked in yet, so if OP pays 300 instead of 500, it should go down even more in a couple of months.. so that's good
I mean it sounds like you had a $200 drop?
Topical chemo cream you say?
Check this out: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mQc_-myy4ts
Well I upvoted you anyways for editing your comment, correcting your mistake. That happens a lot so no worries. Glad you edited your comment and I truly appreciate your transparency!