Snake Bite

[Grizalltheway]

So, what would Jesus do? I bet he'd mark up the shit out of this stuff.

Jesus was a Hippie, therefore Jesus would be an anti vaxxer.

So since you've now been informed that this isn't in fact a vaccine, would Jesus approve of drastically marking up a life-saving anti-venom for the sake of corporate profitability?

[YoUDeeMan]

"She and her colleagues at VIPER used the numbers to build a pricing model for a typical arachnid antivenom sold in the United States. Here's how that model breaks down:"



This thread should be titled Spider Bite.

Yeah, it later mentions snake bites with the Mexican part, but they apparently didn't press 1 for English when they wrote the article.

[CAA Flagship]

"She and her colleagues at VIPER used the numbers to build a pricing model for a typical arachnid antivenom sold in the United States. Here's how that model breaks down:"



This thread should be titled Spider Bite.

Yeah, it later mentions snake bites with the Mexican part, but they apparently didn't press 1 for English when they wrote the article.

I was calling the cable company the other day and got, "Para Espanol, numero dos". So I hit 2 for the hell of it and had no fucking clue what they were saying.

[Baldy]

Jesus was a Hippie, therefore Jesus would be an anti vaxxer.

So since you've now been informed that this isn't in fact a vaccine, would Jesus approve of drastically marking up a life-saving anti-venom for the sake of corporate profitability?

Since vaccines and anti venom are basically the same thing AND without corporations there wouldn't be either...Fuck yes.

[89Hen]

This thread should be titled Spider Bite.

89Jr got a nasty spider bite a few years ago. They gave him nothing other than antibiotics. Entire body was covered in a rash and the red area around the bite went fron ankle to knee.

[HI54UNI]

I thought this thread was about this guy

Farmer urinating in a field is left in agony after a snake bites him on the penis


http://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/artic ... penis.html

[89Hen]

Farmer urinating in a field is left in agony after a snake bites him on the penis

Guess he never listened to Jim Croce. You don't tug on Superman's cape, you don't pissss on a snake...

[Grizalltheway]

I thought this thread was about this guy

Farmer urinating in a field is left in agony after a snake bites him on the penis


http://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/artic ... penis.html

[youtube]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wymIsSw8GrQ[/youtube]

[YoUDeeMan]

This thread should be titled Spider Bite.

89Jr got a nasty spider bite a few years ago. They gave him nothing other than antibiotics. Entire body was covered in a rash and the red area around the bite went fron ankle to knee.

Was it at a Richmond game?

[89Hen]

89Jr got a nasty spider bite a few years ago. They gave him nothing other than antibiotics. Entire body was covered in a rash and the red area around the bite went fron ankle to knee.

Was it at a Richmond game?

He and I were at City Stadium the year the Hens missed a chip shot FG to win. Ever since then he hates Spiders.

[CAA Flagship]

Was it at a Richmond game?

He and I were at City Stadium the year the Hens missed a chip shot FG to win. Ever since then he hates Spiders.

He should be hating Delaware kickers.

[SeattleGriz]

I thought this thread was about this guy

Farmer urinating in a field is left in agony after a snake bites him on the penis


http://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/artic ... penis.html

Same here. Guy getting bit on the dick is much more scary than markups.

[Chizzang]

I have it on pretty good authority that while Jesus was in his Gun Toting Dinosaur Riding phase he was indeed a hard line free market capitalist...



Johnstworng can confirm this... He's totally neutral in matters such as these

[kalm]

Nothing is out of whack in pricing this one either...

Specialists in infectious disease are protesting a gigantic overnight increase in the price of a 62-year-old drug that is the standard of care for treating a life-threatening parasitic infection.

The drug, called Daraprim, was acquired in August by Turing Pharmaceuticals, a start-up run by a former hedge fund manager. Turing immediately raised the price to $750 a tablet from $13.50, bringing the annual cost of treatment for some patients to hundreds of thousands of dollars.

“What is it that they are doing differently that has led to this dramatic increase?” said Dr. Judith Aberg, the chief of the division of infectious diseases at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai. She said the price increase could force hospitals to use “alternative therapies that may not have the same efficacy.”

Turing’s price increase is not an isolated example. While most of the attention on pharmaceutical prices has been on new drugs for diseases like cancer, hepatitis C and high cholesterol, there is also growing concern about huge price increases on older drugs, some of them generic, that have long been mainstays of treatment.

Although some price increases have been caused by shortages, others have resulted from a business strategy of buying old neglected drugs and turning them into high-priced “specialty drugs.”

http://www.nytimes.com/2015/09/21/busin ... share&_r=1" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

[Ivytalk]

Nothing is out of whack in pricing this one either...

Specialists in infectious disease are protesting a gigantic overnight increase in the price of a 62-year-old drug that is the standard of care for treating a life-threatening parasitic infection.

The drug, called Daraprim, was acquired in August by Turing Pharmaceuticals, a start-up run by a former hedge fund manager. Turing immediately raised the price to $750 a tablet from $13.50, bringing the annual cost of treatment for some patients to hundreds of thousands of dollars.

“What is it that they are doing differently that has led to this dramatic increase?” said Dr. Judith Aberg, the chief of the division of infectious diseases at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai. She said the price increase could force hospitals to use “alternative therapies that may not have the same efficacy.”

Turing’s price increase is not an isolated example. While most of the attention on pharmaceutical prices has been on new drugs for diseases like cancer, hepatitis C and high cholesterol, there is also growing concern about huge price increases on older drugs, some of them generic, that have long been mainstays of treatment.

Although some price increases have been caused by shortages, others have resulted from a business strategy of buying old neglected drugs and turning them into high-priced “specialty drugs.”

http://www.nytimes.com/2015/09/21/busin ... share&_r=1" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

Hedge funds!

Seriously, this strikes me as a classic example of gaming the patent-law system. This drug has been out there for 62 years? Really? So why aren't the generic drug makers rushing in to underprice the off-patent usage? Answer: There may be other usages or other regimens/dosages for which it's still possible to get patent law protection for Daraprim and other "rare" drugs. That's what I'd tell Bernie Sanders and Elijah Cummings: fix the system so you can't get extended protection for the same chemistry, regardless of use.

[bluehenbillk]

The pie chart is extremely accurate. Hospitals or surgery centers don't make much profit. Look at the hospitals that have laid people off or gone bankrupt. The manufacturers or distributors are the ones that make the most profit & drive up prices. Next time you goto the doctor's office or the hospital - look around & see who makes all the stuff in there - they're the ones making $$ hand over fist.

We're talking insane markups here that the hospital buy them at. The pharma companies do the same thing on the drugs.