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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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turnsout[dead post] ◴[] No.44383070[source]
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anonfordays ◴[] No.44383448[source]
Healthcare is one of the most regulated industries in existence. You are fundamentally incorrect.
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turnsout ◴[] No.44383508[source]
How about supplements? Yeah…
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1. zdragnar ◴[] No.44383843[source]
Supplements are basically condensed food, not medicine. No supplement provider makes medical claims about what the supplements do. The closest they come is the claim that they "support" various natural functions of the body, though I suspect there's no shortage of supplements out there that are skirting the lines and grey areas of regulations that should probably be reviewed.