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Haggis for Breakfast

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6. It is UNCONSCIONABLE that ANY life-saving medication

Reply to lapfog_1 (Reply #1)

Thu Dec 5, 2019, 09:08 PM

Dec 2019

costs that much. Exactly who does Big Pharma think has that kind of money ? Why even bother to make an orphan drug if you're going to charge that much for it ?

I am so sick of drug companies deciding who lives and who dies all because of who can afford their extortion. And insurance companies are just as parasitic.

This is outrageous.

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Baby denied life-saving drug by Louisiana Medicaid [View all] sl8 Dec 2019 OP

$2 million? lapfog_1 Dec 2019 #1

It is UNCONSCIONABLE that ANY life-saving medication Haggis for Breakfast Dec 2019 #6

Sad. Novartis is a Swiss company. Apparently all major US insurers cover Zolgensma, although Hoyt Dec 2019 #2

Corrupt people manage corrupt systems to determine who will die. They make me rage and cry. abqtommy Dec 2019 #3

You got to understand the full picture ... marble falls Dec 2019 #4

Some more information Midnightwalk Dec 2019 #5