My Little Wailing Wall

jnomics:

The number of prescription drug shortages tripled between 2005 and 2010. Besides having serious consequences for people’s health and well-being, drug shortages drive vendors to charge outragous prices for drugs that are normally affordable when in stock. One report found that price-gouging vendors mark up prices on drugs in short supply by 650 percent, on average.

(via By the Numbers: 650 Percent | The White House)

It’s good to believe in free markets and their efficient nature, but one must also be willing to acknowledge when a lack of regulatory oversight causes inefficient developments.

(via barackobama)

stfuconservatives:

sirmitchell:

Quit asking for handouts you lazy hippie scum! Get a job! 

Anyone who makes any sort of claim against the need for Health Care Reform has never been caught in the awful and very literal dead zone between making not enough money to afford care and making too much money to be covered by the state.

-Joe

(via stfuconservatives)