California Governor announced his state will produce its own low cost insulin

[KILZ FILLZ]

https://thehill.com/homenews/state-watch/3549527-newsom-announces-california-will-produce-its-own-low-cost-insulin/
 

California Gov. Gavin Newsom (D) announced on Thursday that his state will be producing its own “low cost” insulin, stating, “People should not go into debt to get lifesaving medication.”

 

Newsom said that the state budget he recently signed includes $100 million for California to “contract and make [its] own insulin at a cheaper price, close to at cost, and to make it available to all.”

 

He said $50 million of that budget will go to the development of the low cost insulin, while the additional $50 million will go toward a California-based manufacturing facility for the drug, which Newsom claims “will provide new, high-paying jobs and a stronger supply chain.”

 

 

[KILZ FILLZ]

Will this get killed by SCOTUS?

 

 

Newsome padding the resume for a presidential run?

[Elena Delle Donne]

this kinda rules. taking a page out of mark cubans book. 

[Mercer]

I'm not sure why they wouldn't just bypass the patents & license it for manufacturers cost free in California. Sounds great on paper but this is legit dangerous. Anyone who's ever worked in, or directly with the government can tell you it's terrible at everything it does. There's an extremely consistant statistic that shows it costs government exponentially more to provide any service, and the service they provide is usually the worse than any private firm much like the VA, or other agencies that are granted a virtual monopoly where it doesn't matter what the cost/benefit is. Worse yet, I could also see them making millions of people dependent on the program, then cutting people off next "crisis", or more likely just to further political/social credit score agendas. Driving out competition, and competitors until there's only one source on the block.

 

IMO medical patents are the problem, and pure evil. I worked for Cornell, and watched this shit go down first hand. Half the medical research was conducted with taxpayer funds, the other half public/private philanthropic donations, and very little actual corporate/private money was invested. Wild guess what happens when they discover, test, and produce a useful drug. Every fucking time the patent somehow goes to a major global pharma mega-corp. It's such a sham and legit causes death/poor health in people who most likely paid those taxes for the research in the first place.

 

Dates back to the original/actual meaning of monopoly. Has nothing to do with one firm out competing all other's on the market, making it too hard on their competition. Monopoly is where the monarch would grant a family member, or loyal supporter who's also a manufacturer, or merchant a "monopoly". Meaning the force of the entire state would be used against any of their competitors, thus allowing ridiculous pricing. This is essentially what medical patents are. Start making your own insulin and get your property/factory ganked and go to jail basically. A system that's so retarded, but the vast majority of voters are too so not a big deal because the masses are fooled by stupid stunts like this and think "the goberment will save meh".

[mr.yuck]

Even if the government isn't altruistic in this endeavor, they can easily use their bully power to create competition and force the private sector to drive their prices down. I feel dirty just saying some shit like that, but at the same time I just watched a video the other day stating that insulin rationing is a serious reality facing a lot of people where they are only taking partial doses just to stay alive. Not due to a shortage.

[Elena Delle Donne]

there is no insulin shortage. it's not particularly hard to make, and the process has been in place for 50 years. it's just that three corporations make 83% of it. surprise!