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‘Right to Repair for Your Body’: The Rise of DIY, Pirated Medicine (www.404media.co)

submitted 2 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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Sharing because I found this very interesting.

The Four Thieves Vinegar Collective has a DIY design for a home lab you can set up to reproduce expensive medication for dirt cheap, producing medication like that used to cure Hepatitis C, along with software they developed that can be used to create chemical compounds out of common household materials.

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[–] [email protected] 45 points 2 months ago (2 children)

I believe every American knows someone whose life is made substantially worse because of a lack of access to healthcare.

I want to set this up and learn to use it. I want to keep it and maintain it and wait. Because I'll inevitably hear from someone that they can't afford their life-saving medication.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 2 months ago

Oh, also I have an exceedingly rare hereditary disease, so it feels like a certainty I'll need it for myself someday.

[–] [email protected] -3 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (1 children)

I know someone whose life is made substantially worse because they have a lack of access to healthcare. They live in Europe and can't get access to the specialized medicine that they need in the timeframe that they need it in. I'm not saying that socialized medicine is bad—I'm actually all for it—but it needs to be implemented well for it to actually work. This is just my anecdotal evidence to say that just because everyone has access doesn't automatically mean it's adequate access.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 months ago (1 children)

I can't really comment on the European experience though, so I said American, which I am, and which I am qualified to talk about.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 months ago

I'm not European either. I'm also American. I wasn't contradicting anything you were saying; I agree with it. I was just trying to add to the discussion by suggesting that if we are going to get universal healthcare right in America, we have to consider a lot more than just free access.