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Older people are on average more vulnerable, both to disease and increases in the cost of medication. And so what if only certain insulins are made cheaper? They're still cheaper.

It is always possible to spin anything negatively, but it might be worth considering why you're putting in this much effort.




Because pitting certain tribes of constituents against each other is a big problem in US politics, works against efforts to redistribute wealth for all. Now that the old voters have their healthcare, they have less incentive to vote for plans for others to get it.

Most importantly, it avoids politicians having to address the root problem, which is the lack of taxpayer funded R&D into medicine that would be in the public domain, hence not subject to the high prices of patented medicine. And of course, this helps the businesses that patent medicines.

It is also ridiculous to me how much more my country prioritizes the elderly over children, who are literally the future.


> Because pitting certain tribes of constituents against each other is a big problem in US politics

Doing things for some groups is not the same as pitting groups against each other.

> works against efforts to redistribute wealth for all

You can only steal and reallocate money, not wealth. This will destroy wealth for all.

> the lack of taxpayer funded R&D into medicine that would be in the public domain, hence not subject to the high prices of patented medicine.

Plenty of R&D is at least partially taxpayer funded, but you're underestimating the total amount of R&D (including the cost of completely failed ideas) that goes into drug discovery. Deciding taxpayers should fund the sum total of pharma R&D, and presumably also the production costs, as those would've been funded by the patent-protected profits, seems strange on the face of it.

> how much more my country prioritizes the elderly over children

The elderly aren't always prioritised. But with health, they, along with newborns and pregnant mums, are some of the naturally most at-risk people in your population.

> literally

Sigh.




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