Posted by alexandra_k on April 2, 2022, at 18:53:43
for next year.
so there should be enough for maaori to be eligible for a free one at 55 (various other groups are at age 55 because they are 'high risk' of complications) and others at age 60 or 65 (i forget).
but what he likely failed to mention is that after paying for the purchase (and writing into the purchase agreement who was going to prioritised for them because that would likely have factored into the price negotiations of trying to make healthcare affordable to people who aren't in the position to pay)
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is that they then arranged to sell them to people who will pay us more for them than the price we purchased them for.
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you know how it is... you purchase HIV medication from South Africa pleading for a special price so you can supply it to the children who inherited it during birth...
then you sell it at 3x or 4x or more than the purchase price, back to wealthy Americans who will pay to take the medication prophylactically, even.
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right?
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which is why we can't have most of the medications, in nz.
corruption.
that's why.
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