• @Pratai@lemmy.ca
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    604 months ago

    Imagine blatantly and in the wide-open, arguing that you should have a right to gouge people for life-saving medications.

    They do this because what are people going to do? Boycott them?

    • @cmoney@lemmy.world
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      384 months ago

      It’s also my understanding that these pharma companies used tax money in development of the drugs they are now trying to gouge us on.

    • snownyte
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      174 months ago

      “We just want to continue playing god. What’s wrong with that?”

        • snownyte
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          -14 months ago

          Don’t lump honest work into this.

          I hope you get injured to the point where you’ll need surgery, because you sound like the kind of retard who thinks they’ve above everything. Yeah, break something and then see how far you’ll get without screaming for a surgeon.

  • @Brkdncr@lemmy.world
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    404 months ago

    Last month, a federal judge in Delaware heard arguments from AstraZeneca’s lawyers, which reportedly went poorly. AstraZeneca argued that Medicare’s new power to negotiate drug prices violates the company’s rights under the Fifth Amendment’s due process clause. The forced negotiations deprive the company of “property rights in their drug products and their patent rights" without due process, AstraZeneca claimed. But Colm Connolly, chief judge of the US District Court of Delaware, was skeptical of how that could be the case, according to a Stat reporter who was present for the hearing. Connolly noted that AstraZeneca doesn’t have to sell drugs to Medicare. “You’re free to do what you want,” Connolly reportedly said. “You may not make as much money.”

    At a later point, Connolly bluntly commented: “I don’t find their argument compelling.”

  • Admiral Patrick
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    274 months ago

    Had to scroll back up because for a second I thought Half Life 3 was out and that it looked amazing.

    • EinatYahavOP
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      214 months ago

      What’s that symbol you used after Half Life?

      • Admiral Patrick
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        234 months ago

        Ah, you must be a current/former Valve employee. We call it “3”, pronounced “thuh-ree”. It is the natural number following 2 and preceding 4.

        • Norgur
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          104 months ago

          Steam’s code must be a marvel to behold. All those calculations that are necessary to make it run and none of them ever result in a 3, since that would make the client just close.

  • AutoTL;DRB
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    34 months ago

    This is the best summary I could come up with:


    The lawsuit dismissed Monday is just one of nine from the pharmaceutical industry, all claiming in some way that the price negotiations laid out in the Inflation Reduction Act of 2022 are unconstitutional.

    AstraZeneca argued that Medicare’s new power to negotiate drug prices violates the company’s rights under the Fifth Amendment’s due process clause.

    But Colm Connolly, chief judge of the US District Court of Delaware, was skeptical of how that could be the case, according to a Stat reporter who was present for the hearing.

    Though the plaintiffs in the now-dismissed Texas also made an argument based on the Fifth Amendment’s due process clause, the case didn’t make it that far.

    “[T]he same federal jurisdictional defect likely exists for PhRMA and GCCA, as nothing suggests that either party has presented its claims to the [Health] Secretary,” Ezra wrote.

    A spokesperson for PhRMA told FiercePharma: “We are disappointed with the court’s decision, which does not address the merits of our lawsuit, and we are weighing our next legal steps.”


    The original article contains 694 words, the summary contains 169 words. Saved 76%. I’m a bot and I’m open source!

  • Norgur
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    24 months ago

    This guy looks like you asked ab AI to create a mean business person. And his name “Ubl” looks kinda like a misspelled derivative of the word “Übel” from German, which means “mean”, “really bad” or “to feel sick”