The agency’s decision could change the way Americans obtain prescription medicines and could reduce their cost.

Archive link. https://archive.is/N4Rqj

Some personal editorializing: This is a pretty remarkable first because of how captive we Americans are to pharma prices. Famously, when Medicare Part D was brought into existence by law it restricted the federal government from negotiating Part D drug prices. To me, shopping for drugs in Canada is tackling the symptom and ignores the cause. I wonder if this gets more traction with more states how it might affect drug prices in Canada, too.

The real solution to all this, of course, would be nationalize the healthcare industry in all aspects and to create a single payer healthcare system.

  • queermunist she/her
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    1 year ago

    I didn’t say that.

    You did! You said “Take the standard deviation of that and time off should be above that.” How am I supposed to read that as anything other than “look at what level of work causes burnout/depression/etc. and then give them enough time off above that”?

    I didn’t suggest any solutions

    We must have had a miscommunication because, again, it sure sounded like you were proposing how much time off people should get i.e. “Take the standard deviation of that and time off should be above that.”

    Individual psychological profiles are inaccurate, but over a sufficiently large, random sample, they should average out to a useful metric for a given study.

    I’m talking about broad metrics across a population, not at an individual level

    So what do you do with people who fall outside the normal standard deviation? If someone needs more time off than average, what do you propose we do with them?

    Sure, that’s what a usual metric

    imo the usual metric is the market rate. You get as much time off as the market will allow.