The BG Health Care Thread: Decreasing the Surplus Population

[Cail]

https://www.washingtonpost.com/clima...-pipe-removal/

The Biden administration on Thursday announced an effort to jump-start the removal of every underground lead water service line in the country, a move meant to stop once and for all the poisonous metal from flowing through the taps of millions of Americans.


Half a dozen years after the water-contamination fiasco in Flint, Mich., shined a national spotlight on the persistent problem, the Environmental Protection Agency is set to write stricter standards for drinking water that would compel water utilities to dig up and replace lead lines from coast to coast.


Up to 10 million lead pipes still carry water to homes and businesses around the nation, the EPA estimates, carrying with them the risk of leaching the dangerous neurotoxin into drinking water. President Biden campaigned on removing all of the nation’s lead service lines as part of his plan to upgrade the nation’s aging infrastructure and alleviate the burden of pollution borne most heavily by poor and minority communities.

[archibaldcrane]

this is fucking outrageous

https://twitter.com/sarahkliff/statu...47311546216449

[Koyangi]

You're better off not getting it done at all at that rate.

[kuronosan]

I know of no doctors that consider these reliable, the gold standard is free DNA testing from chorion sampling.

This is why free market tactics in health care is shit.

[archibaldcrane]

holy fuck, this sounds ridiculously promising if it holds up

https://twitter.com/kearnsneuro/stat...72805024800769

Multiple sclerosis (MS) is a chronic inflammatory demyelinating disease of the central nervous system of unknown etiology. We tested the hypothesis that MS is caused by Epstein-Barr virus (EBV) in a cohort comprising more than 10 million young adults on active duty in the US military, 955 of whom were diagnosed with MS during their period of service. Risk of MS increased 32-fold after infection with EBV but was not increased after infection with other viruses, including the similarly transmitted cytomegalovirus.

[kuronosan]

EBV causes a lot of downstream mutations in immune cells, which can also lead to lymphoma or other cancers as well.

While fascinating, currently there isn't really a cure for it (not a practical one) so hopefully this will lead to more review and potential research that could lead to a legitimate cure.

[archibaldcrane]

Maybe we could use some of that newfangled mRNA technology to make an EBV vaccine

[archibaldcrane]

Maybe we could use some of that newfangled mRNA technology to make an EBV vaccine

Oh look, Moderna tha gawd is already on it

https://www.umassmed.edu/news/news-a...at-umass-chan/

[kuronosan]

I'm gonna see if I can get some research data to look over. That's ridiculously promising.

[Gwynplaine]

Just a reminder that tomorrow, the 15th is the LAST DAY to enroll in ACA coverage if you need it. If it's something that works for you it's better than having no coverage after it's too late to need it.

[archibaldcrane]

I'm gonna see if I can get some research data to look over. That's ridiculously promising.

Yeah like 400k people in the US have MS, devastating disease - not to mention the hundreds of thousands of cancers and who knows what else EBV causes.

[Outlaw]

It's like something has lit a fire under medical scientists asses and now they are trying to actually cure diseases instead of just treating and profiting off them. Hmm.

Spoiler: show

Sarcasm

[archibaldcrane]

This is extremely cool, Mark Cuban just opened an online pharmacy for common generic drugs that undercuts the cash price on many of them by ~80% and less than a lot of insurance-negotiated prices.

https://costplusdrugs.com/

[Cantih]

And so we enter the robber-baron-philanthropist phase of Gilded Age 2: Electric Boogaloo

[Boyiee]

I have really good insurance and a couple things I looked up are basically identical to insurance price. I didn't check to see if there was shipping But I read about this the other day and I think it would be really great for a lot of people.

[Ksandra]

This is extremely cool, Mark Cuban just opened an online pharmacy for common generic drugs that undercuts the cash price on many of them by ~80% and less than a lot of insurance-negotiated prices.

https://costplusdrugs.com/

That's fucking awesome.

[kuronosan]

This is extremely cool, Mark Cuban just opened an online pharmacy for common generic drugs that undercuts the cash price on many of them by ~80% and less than a lot of insurance-negotiated prices.

https://costplusdrugs.com/

You can accomplish the same thing with GoodRx for not so significantly more.

Promising though.

[Andalusian girls]

This is extremely cool, Mark Cuban just opened an online pharmacy for common generic drugs that undercuts the cash price on many of them by ~80% and less than a lot of insurance-negotiated prices.

https://costplusdrugs.com/

huge. absolutely life changing for a lot of people if it proves viable.

[Byrthnoth]

This is an improvement on our current system, but a lot of the price drop (and profit margin increase) in the pharmaceutical industry over the last two decades has been due to the lack of effective regulation of overseas manufacturing. By putting his face on the landing page here, it could end up with a *lot* of egg on it when the generics he's selling are shown once again to be something other than what's on the label.

Brandname drugs aren't necessarily any better at this point (also manufactured almost exclusively overseas), but we should recognize that the reason we can take a "lowest bidder is the best" approach to medicine because "a pill is a pill" due to the FDA's strict regulation and enforcement. That's not necessarily true anymore.

[archibaldcrane]

Tons of dentistry is fraud but this takes it to a whole new evil level. Thread :

https://twitter.com/moetkacik/status...go2f0rk0A&s=19