On: He Has 17,700 Bottles of Hand Sanitizer and Nowher...

[zenonu]

We (the guy in the article and myself) live in a nation where insurance companies would rather see you die than pay out, insulin is $350/bottle when it's $7 to produce, and politicians that we elect are entirely for it all. We have ourselves to blame for setting the moral standard.

[Yuioup → zenonu]

"Yes Officer, we were breaking the speed limit because, let's not kid ourselves, everybody breaks the speed limit."

[jmull → zenonu]

Other people are bad so it's OK for you to be bad?

The basic moral standard is don't be an asshole, especially not when people are desperate. You're failing that.

[listsfrin → zenonu]

If it's $7 to produce why there are no new companies that sell it for $100? They'd make quite some profit.

[hawkice → listsfrin]

Intense regulatory barriers.

For a longer comment from a healthcare worker of note, see section 2 here: https://slatestarcodex.com/2019/04/30/buspirone-shortage-in-...

[listsfrin → hawkice]

What do we understand from this?

[hawkice → listsfrin]

Probably that if someone wants to make cheap lifesaving medicine they should have an easy way to do that instead of a Kafkaesque hellscape to navigate, but I'm not sure that insight generalizes beyond "make good things easy".

[listsfrin → hawkice]

We understand that currently it costs a lot more than $7 to produce insulin.

[dwmcqueen → dHarbing]

I'll bite. You have an underlying assumption that millions of foreign nationals are cared for who have paid nothing.

Evidence?

[mercora → dHarbing]

i honestly don't get what people you are talking about... who did not pay into what system and why does that drive prices for insulin up? I mean i get that 7$ production cost does not translate into a 7$ price tag even without a profit but what is driving the cost of these people that has to be compensated for in insulin pricing?