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[–] SnotFlickerman@lemmy.blahaj.zone 249 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago) (7 children)

This motherfucker is literally gonna kill me by making my already unaffordable cancer meds really insanely unaffordable.

Something like almost half of generic medications are made in India.

[–] AThing4String@sh.itjust.works 57 points 3 days ago

And 85% of medical isotopes come from Canada!

[–] Dima@feddit.uk 9 points 3 days ago (2 children)

Something like almost half of generic medications are made in India.

Is this for cancer drugs or generics in general? Only asking because most of the generics I see in the UK are made here, but that might be because I've only seen the more common medications and not stuff like cancer drugs.

Hope you manage to beat the cancer!

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[–] MuskyMelon@lemmy.world 132 points 4 days ago (3 children)

Like a really bad gambler, double downing every hand in blackjack.

[–] Mearuu@kbin.melroy.org 63 points 4 days ago (5 children)

Not on topic but that is actually a valid strategy for blackjack. It is the reason that table limits exist. Otherwise doubling down every loss will eventually net you a positive.

For global politics is still next level stupid.

[–] makyo@lemmy.world 29 points 3 days ago (5 children)

It's sort of a crazy strategy in Blackjack too. Lose 7-8 times in a row and you're already betting 100x your starting bet.

[–] Windex007@lemmy.world 32 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) (1 children)

If you've lost 8 times in a row, you're actually now betting 256x your original bet.

It's NOT a good strategy. Statistically it doesn't by any means whatsoever ensure you'll end up net positive.

It's called "Oscar's Grind" and there is a plethora of mathematics that show it is does not beat the house.

[–] weirdboy@lemm.ee 27 points 3 days ago (1 children)

It is called the Martingale system.

Oscars grind works in a completely different fashion, and you do not raise your bet when you lose.

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[–] rc__buggy@sh.itjust.works 11 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago) (4 children)

A valid losing strategy, sure.

But doubling down can only be done during play, not at the start of a hand.

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[–] Gates9@sh.itjust.works 46 points 3 days ago (2 children)

The man is literally an existential threat to Americans

[–] SoftestSapphic@lemmy.world 16 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago)

Krasnov Russian asset

[–] zarkanian@sh.itjust.works 6 points 3 days ago

l i t e r a l l y

[–] BlackSheep@lemmy.ca 87 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Great. As if the American people weren’t already paying too much for medication. Now, they’re going to be paying more. And Trump is going to blame it on tariffs—that he started.

[–] frunch@lemmy.world 30 points 3 days ago

He'll be blaming it on the retaliatory tariffs.

His tariffs are the best/perfect, it's all these unnecessary tariffs these other countries insist on imposing in response that are to blame 🤹‍♂️

[–] aesthelete@lemmy.world 48 points 3 days ago

That's good medicine wasn't expensive enough already in this country.

[–] itisileclerk@lemmy.world 66 points 3 days ago (3 children)

Great! Medicines will now be even more expensive for patients in the United States. Genius!

[–] Ledericas@lemm.ee 33 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago)

That includes generics, majority of them are created in india

[–] jonne@infosec.pub 14 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Because ozempic is just too cheap.

[–] EvilCartyen@feddit.dk 11 points 3 days ago (3 children)

Novo produces a lot of Wegovy/Ozempic in the US, in North Carolina specifically. But I don't know if it's enough to cover US demand, probably not.

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[–] LadyMeow@lemmy.blahaj.zone 89 points 4 days ago (1 children)

Oh good, that’s totally going to help drug prices go down, right?

[–] Aliktren@lemmy.world 18 points 3 days ago

Everywhere else ? Probably

[–] Ledericas@lemm.ee 54 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Alot of generic drugs come from India.

[–] TheBloodFarts@lemmy.ca 8 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Virtually all chemical compounds used to manufacture all pharmaceuticals in the world come from China and India in massive, massive quantities

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[–] seaQueue@lemmy.world 60 points 3 days ago (2 children)

I absolutely can't wait to see the carnage in the stock market tomorrow morning

[–] bent@lemm.ee 26 points 3 days ago

I just got out of the stock market recently to get myself a bigger apartment. Felt really insecure about the decision until now (budgeting is tight). Feel for everyone that have their savings in this dumpster fire.

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[–] thedruid@lemmy.world 43 points 3 days ago

This mother needs to be jailed for murder

[–] Noite_Etion@lemmy.world 39 points 4 days ago (1 children)

We're going to win the midterm elections and we're going to have a tremendous, thundering landslide, I really believe that . . . and I really think we're helped a lot by the tariff situation that's going on," Trump said. "Which is a good situation, not a bad, it's great. It's going to be legendary, you watch. Legendary in a positive way.

You'll all be so poor and stupid you'll have to vote for us.

[–] bassomitron@lemmy.world 31 points 4 days ago (2 children)

Heh. With how they're taking over the FEC and other election regulatory bodies in red states, I am not optimistic there'll be normal/fair elections in the near future. Not that the pre-existing gerrymandering was fair to begin with in many states, but it's going to get worse.

[–] dlatch@lemmy.world 29 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago) (2 children)

Anyone who thinks there will be fair elections needs to wake the fuck up. Look at how much Trump has changed what is considered normal in just 3 months. By the time mid term elections come around none of the institutions that allow for elections to happen normally will even exist anymore. I doubt the presendential elections will happen at all, by then the economy will be so far in shambles that America will be in survival mode.

Americans need to step up now, if you wait for elections you will be too late.

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[–] pandorafrog@lemmy.world 17 points 3 days ago

Found this recently and I'm betting it ties into this somehow: H.R.661 - MIRACLE Medical Technology Act of 2025. https://www.congress.gov/bill/119th-congress/house-bill/661

Introduced in House (01/23/2025)

Maximizing Israel-U.S. Research Advancement and Collaborative Leadership in Emerging Medical Technology Act of 2025 or the MIRACLE Medical Technology Act of 2025

This bill requires the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) to implement a program for the United States and Israel to collaborate on developing and delivering health care products and services. The program must include coordinated activities in specified areas, including research and development, use of innovative technology, intellectual property protection, regulatory harmonization, disease prevention, and biological product manufacturing. The bill authorizes HHS to establish a joint United States-Israel Health Care Collaboration Center in the United States to leverage existing expertise for advancing the program’s purposes.

[–] hopesdead@startrek.website 27 points 3 days ago (7 children)

I saw my mom watching The Handmaids Tale today. It made me think, are we slowly transforming into Gilead?

FYI, I know Gilead is United States. I read the book.

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[–] Monstrosity@lemm.ee 29 points 4 days ago (1 children)
[–] seaQueue@lemmy.world 13 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Uhh, no thanks, I like my genitals disease free

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[–] Dragomus@lemmy.world 7 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Isn't Ozempic already mad expensive in the US compared to Denmark where it comes from?

Perhaps he thinks Ozempic actually is harvested in Greenland? :-D

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[–] Archangel1313@lemm.ee 23 points 4 days ago (2 children)

So, he really IS going to try and put tariffs on fentanyl?

[–] catloaf@lemm.ee 37 points 4 days ago (2 children)

Somehow I don't think smugglers pay tariffs.

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[–] qyron@sopuli.xyz 19 points 3 days ago

I foresee a cave-in.

[–] ChillPenguin@lemmy.world 5 points 3 days ago

There's nothing the markets love more than uncertainty.

[–] EndOfLine@lemmy.world 16 points 4 days ago (2 children)

Is his strategy to force the Republicans in Congress to do their job and take away the power they gave him to impose teriffs so he can then say...

"My plan, and it was a great plan. Many smart people looked at it and said it was the smartest plan they had ever seen for any economy every. The smartest plan. None of them had never heard a plan as smart as mine. They could barely believe it when they heard it. It was such a good plan, but those Liberals in Congress stopped it. It was working. All the best economu people in all the world said it was working and was going to be the best most amazing thing anybody had ever seen. Because it was. It was doing the greatest any president had ever done for this country, but they said no. Why would they do that? Maybe they don't want to make America great again. Because that's what my amazing plan was doing, but maybe they don't want that. My amazing plan that everybody agreed was the best plan ever. So much better than any other plan, but they blocked it. We need better people in Congress. People who will work with me, not against me."

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[–] blakenong@lemmings.world 10 points 3 days ago

Deny. Defend. Depose.

[–] Vari@lemm.ee 6 points 3 days ago

Great. Now that I finally got my 100$/mo med that I need.

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