Comments by "Lepi Doptera" (@lepidoptera9337) on "What the Maker of Ozempic Doesn't Want You to Know: It's Bankrupting America" video.

  1. One can probably not even deliver a drug like this for $5 to the pharmacy. The entire video is one big made up lie.
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  2. This is not a free market problem. This is a drug development cost problem. If you look at the actual margins of drug companies, you will notice that they are in the low percent to low teens range. It's a very hard business model. How do you know? You aren't making any. If anybody could make drugs like housewives are making candles and soap, then you would, too.
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  3. You can make a peptide at home, if you wish. The problem is as you said: that peptide won't survive in your body for more than a few minutes, which is medically useless. By the time you have done all the necessary research to have a useful drug approved you are billions in cost into a game that is very hard to win. Only one in ten drugs makes it to the market. Since you have spent a billion per losing product, that means your winning one must make you tens of billions or you aren't going to be in business long.
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  4. Ozempic doesn't bring most people down to a proper weight, but it does improve biochemical imbalances a lot.
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  5.  @jebril  His voters have zero interest in reality. He probably wouldn't get elected if he told the truth.
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  6. Yes, they don't work, either. Ozempic does. ;-)
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  7. I can see a PCP within an hour or two and my own PCP within a week or two if needed. Elective surgery can be scheduled in days to weeks around here. What's the downside? Insane health insurance cost. You can't have it both ways. If you want prompt service, then you have to accept the cost of serious inefficiencies.
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  8.  @Bluejay32  Most developed countries are dealing with physician shortages by immigration. All of my cardiologists are from India. That means there is a shortage of cardiologists in India now, but not around here. Healthcare systems that are trying to manage cost by lowering service levels have shortages. Absolutely. That's what "communism" gets you. What "capitalism" gets you is a $3000 per month health insurance bill (I am past that, since I am retired I am now on medicare... don't know how much the government spends on me now). No argument with either. Like I said, you have to make a choice, cheap or good. What everybody wants, of course, is free healthcare with same day service and a full tank of gas and a steak dinner for 25 cents, like in the good old days. Not going to happen.
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  9. Can you name the middlemen here? I bet you can't.
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  10. There are no patents on insulin any longer. You can make it in your garage, if you like. Good luck getting approval from the FDA for your home brew, though... and by the time you do get FDA approval, you will be selling it for just as much as everybody else. Yes, it's that expensive to make safe biologics.
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  11. You should be doing all of that in addition to taking Ozempic. Not sure where you get the idea from the the government subsidizes it in the US.
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  12. Why are you telling us that you don't know chemistry? ;-)
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