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So, its funny. I remember another statewide leader taking a historic bus trip with a group of immigrants.
Bernie Sanders Heads to Canada for Affordable Insulin: The senator took people with diabetes on a bus trip across the border to dramatize high prices in the U.S. that he attributes to corporate greed.
Pharmacies just on the other side of the US/Mexico border are selling the exact same prescription drugs as those available in Texas pharmacies at drastically reduced prices, entirely thanks to the cartelized nature of domestic pharmaceutical prices. While it is not illegal to buy these drugs for personal use and transport them across the border, it is illegal to buy them and bring them across the border for sale.
When you think about what a guy like Greg Abbott is doing, when he rounds up a bunch of "illegal immigrants" and buses them around the country, its worth considering what does and does not constitute as crime.
They're not reduced prices. They're normal prices. The cost for insulin in the US is bloated and excessive beyond all comprehension. Framing it as a reduced or discount price in Mexico feeds into the idea that the US prices are somehow reasonable or normal. They are not.
Just a fun reminder that Cuba has a lung cancer vaccine that costs like $1 per shot.
I feel like healthcare costs could be a real catalyst for left-policies in the U.S but the Healthcare Industry is going to fight it every step of the way.
Is the WHO like a medical UN or ICC? Like third party org with some neutrality/impartiality that could "absorb" and evaluate this drug, solely from a medical and not political lens? Do we have that type of org in the world for pure scientific breakthrough that is trapped in otherwise difficult countries or between political feuds?