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Re:GLP-1s Are Breaking Life Insurance by loeg on Monday July 14, 2025 @01:19PM (#44562729)
Wouldn't fair compensation more or less be equivalent to medicaid paying for the drug? And if so, why eminent domain it?
Re:GLP-1s Are Breaking Life Insurance by int_19h on Monday July 14, 2025 @01:46PM (#44563061)
No. Fair compensation means that the company doesn't end up with a loss, and gets rewarded, but it doesn't mean "give them as much money as they could otherwise extract by exploiting the monopoly that the patent gives them on the market".
Re:GLP-1s Are Breaking Life Insurance by loeg on Monday July 14, 2025 @02:03PM (#44563273)
Doesn't seem fair to me.
Re:GLP-1s Are Breaking Life Insurance by int_19h on Monday July 14, 2025 @04:16PM (#44564759)
And withholding access to drugs that would extend everyone's lifespan by several years to maximize profits doesn't seem fair to me either. In fact, it's outright sociopathic.
Re:GLP-1s Are Breaking Life Insurance by loeg on Monday July 14, 2025 @06:34PM (#44566085)
These drugs are covered for the people whose lifespans would be extended by having them! They pay nothing! The situations where insurers/medicaid don't want to pay are more marginal cases. And even then, it's like, 1/5 the cost of child care in a major metro and only getting cheaper. If you're going to use an extraordinary mechanism to seize private property, it better have outsized impact -- seize surface parking lots and sell them to developers to build more housing.