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The Hollow Men of Hims

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mlsu ◴[] No.44383056[source]
The explosive growth of Hims and other side-channel healthcare businesses (using this model -- telehealth combined with compounded meds) is entirely due to the "legitimate" healthcare system's complete and total failure to serve patients' needs.

You can maybe talk about the hollow men of Novo and Lilly, who colluded with PBMs and insurers for most of a decade to push the cost of insulin analogues into the stratosphere, taking billions in profit while people died in agony rationing insulin. (in horrible agony -- blood turning into acid until brain death)

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1. 827a ◴[] No.44383565[source]
Huh? Healthcare is probably the most regulated industry in America, and the world. Many of the problems healthcare currently faces could be dampened considerably with greater market competition; while creating problems of its own, of course, but it is absolutely the case that drugs get cheaper when generics become available; that's marketplace competition.