If you're risking dying of an anaphylactic shock every day, you don't really have time to wait for some other company to come and compete.
If you're risking dying of anaphylactic shock every day, what you need is an injection of Epinephrine, which you can get from other autoinjectors, or from a manual injection. You don't need this specific delivery method. To put this another way: you need food to survive, you don't need a gourmet meal from Gordon Ramsey to survive. If you want a gourmet meal from Gordon Ramsey, you have to pay for it, and he gets to decide what the price is.
Not only the government is doing nothing to ensure that the weak and ill get no protection, but they are actually conspiring to keep the big players in charge and crushing competition, because that brings them "campaign contributions".
You'll get no argument from me on the assertion that the current administration is corrupt. The last three Presidents have been disastrous: From the corruption of Clinton, to Bush's illegal wars, to Obama's utter incompetence, we've been scraping the bottom of the barrel for the last couple of decades. You're preaching to the choir here.
I think we'll have to agree to disagree on the first point. As a matter of principle, I don't think people should be forced to compromise on treatment choices for diseases based on socioeconomic status. Especially not when the system is so biased against the availability of fair options.
On the second one, I wish there was some hope on the horizon, but sadly it seems that the barrel still hasn't run out of stuff to scrap. Seems like Douglas Adams was right about people who want to rule.
No one is being forced to compromise on treatment, the medication is exactly the same. Epinephrine is just another name for Adrenalin, it's a naturally occurring hormone and whether you get it from an EpiPen or a different brand, it's exactly the same thing. The only difference is convenience.
but sadly it seems that the barrel still hasn't run out of stuff to scrap.
The only thing certain about this election is that, either way, it's going to be a long four years.
If you're risking dying of anaphylactic shock every day, what you need is an injection of Epinephrine, which you can get from other autoinjectors, or from a manual injection. You don't need this specific delivery method. To put this another way: you need food to survive, you don't need a gourmet meal from Gordon Ramsey to survive. If you want a gourmet meal from Gordon Ramsey, you have to pay for it, and he gets to decide what the price is.
You'll get no argument from me on the assertion that the current administration is corrupt. The last three Presidents have been disastrous: From the corruption of Clinton, to Bush's illegal wars, to Obama's utter incompetence, we've been scraping the bottom of the barrel for the last couple of decades. You're preaching to the choir here.
I think we'll have to agree to disagree on the first point. As a matter of principle, I don't think people should be forced to compromise on treatment choices for diseases based on socioeconomic status. Especially not when the system is so biased against the availability of fair options.
On the second one, I wish there was some hope on the horizon, but sadly it seems that the barrel still hasn't run out of stuff to scrap. Seems like Douglas Adams was right about people who want to rule.
No one is being forced to compromise on treatment, the medication is exactly the same. Epinephrine is just another name for Adrenalin, it's a naturally occurring hormone and whether you get it from an EpiPen or a different brand, it's exactly the same thing. The only difference is convenience.
The only thing certain about this election is that, either way, it's going to be a long four years.