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badgenome said:
Ajescent said:
So...why are people so against this? From where I stand (i.e as a guy who gets sick at the drop of a hat and often requires hospital visits and is too broke to afford to pay for anything) This can only be a good thing.

Only complaints I've heard is 'it's "unamerican, unpatriotic, socialist"' not entirely sure what any of that means.

How about the fact that whether or not you believe health care is a "right", this is an incredibly dishonest and, frankly, fucking stupid way of going about it. The whole thing has been sold as putting evil, abusive insurance companies in their place when in reality it is just forcing people to do business with these same evil, abusive insurance companies. It's very telling that the whole time the Democrats were demonizing them and talking about how hard the insurance companies were working to defeat the bill... they actually weren't. That's because they were helping to write the bill. It's crony capitalism at its worst.

It's funny, they had a guy interveiwed on CNBC who was glad the bill passed,because that means it guranteed the 12 year ban on biosimilers.

This is of course vs Europe and Asia who are going to allow biosimilar generic drugs right off the bat.