I mean, ok, if Apple isn’t our friend, then we have really shitty friends.

Talking about Apple is like talking about politics, it’s a very sensible subject, but Apple has always used practices to keep its walled garden, with propietary formats in hardware and software. The current fight against rights for owners to fix their stuff, thae many ways they favor profit over users, etc.

Weird from a website that gives Apple the journalistic equivalent of nigh-daily sloppy Bjs.

Galaxy farts.

Very odd how you put the blame solely on insurance companies but don’t go into the insanely high price for DAAs in the US. For comparison, Sovaldi generics in India are $4 per pill. In the US, they launched for $1000 per pill!

Health care should be non profit. Insurance should be non profit. If you need it to life, it should be non profit. Full stop.

What’s sad is that if you are in the top 10%, $100,000 to drastically improve the quality of your life or to even save it is a no brainer. It will not significantly affect your life. For people on the border, you might be a bit inconvenienced. Maybe you can’t buy a new car for a few more years, but you’ll live and…

Interesting. Thanks. I’m very careful if I have an open wound but I’ve been sober for 17 years so hopefully I won’t have any avocational sharps ever again.

If theres one group of people who deserve a Bastille Day type of day in their lifes is health and big pharma corp execs. Evilest motherfuckers on the planet.

something something the free market will fix it...

Cool anecdote.

This is exactly why the 90 percent tax rate on the very wealthy (not just the extremely wealthy mind you) was a great thing in the 1950's U.S.

As an ICU nurse I’ve seen that syndrome; you will get a small percentage of patients who will scuttle any chance to improve their health for a number of reasons. BUT you can’t apply that twisted logic to the whole of a potentially curable suffering patient population—that’s twisted logic of an evil stripe.

Connecting your health, and more so, if you live or die, to someone’s profit, is not how medicine should be practiced.

Because it can be. Some will cry R&D nonsense, which is only 10% of the equation and always vastly overstated on actual expenses because it’s quite rare that any single treatment doesn’t help other areas of study or other treatments or helped create ancillary treatments for other things.

Im glad I dont live in one of those shit hole commie countries where a bunch’a byooo-row-krat death panels decide who lives and dies.

We know why...

no, the problem is that insurance companies dont want to pay for anything even if it’s $2.

The problem is that the regimen costs $100,000. Of course insurance providers don’t want to pay for it. The article doesn’t say much about why it is $100k to begin with.

I still think that “armchair tourism” is the best bet for VR to take off for any kind of mainstream success. Let’s be honest most people don’t have an entire room of half a room to COMPLETELY clear of any and everything you WILL trip on by trying to walk around in the virtual/real world. And until a viable not crazy…