California to try to manufacture generic drugs

[saveinla]

www.latimes.com/california/story/2020-09-01/california-may-dive-into-generic-drug-market

Something interesting happening here in CA. There is a bill introduced in the state to try and start to manufacture biosimilars for insulin and a few other generic drugs.
Hope they can start to do that and drive the price down. It will help a lot of people.

[thyme4change]

Government owned industry? Sounds like socialism. If only capitalism hadn't been so darn greedy, maybe the government wouldn't go through this hassle.

[busymom]

Good.  The corporate manufacturers are currently focusing on profits, and rarely the patient.  If it takes the government to compete with them, so be it.

[Ava]

No harm in trying something different because being beholden to Big Farma is not working for the majority of US citizens.

CT recently voted on price caps for insulin and insulin related supplies such as pumps, lancets, etc. and other drugs. But the bill only applies to state-sponsored health plans, leaving a large portion of the population still vulnerable to outrageous prices.

A little OT:
I am very interested in the current discussion about electricity providers. We have two major companies in CT; United Illuminating and Eversource. Both had a substandard response to Hurricane Ike, generally bad service, but prices are among the highest in the nation.
Eversource recently hiked its prices 26% in the middle of a pandemic. The legislature temporarily suspended the increase while investigating the reasons for it. The CEO was paid $20 million last year.
One senator has proposed CT moves away from for-profit providers and creates a non-profit government electricity entity. Sometimes government is the answer. Wish they go through with this but the chances are slim to none.

[djAdvocate]

love that idea.

we should have state certified doctors, too.
fuck the national models.
they don't work.

[NastyWoman]

Sept 2, 2020 8:42:26 GMT -5 Ava said:

No harm in trying something different because being beholden to Big Farma is not working for the majority of US citizens.

CT recently voted on price caps for insulin and insulin related supplies such as pumps, lancets, etc. and other drugs. But the bill only applies to state-sponsored health plans, leaving a large portion of the population still vulnerable to outrageous prices.

A little OT:
I am very interested in the current discussion about electricity providers. We have two major companies in CT; United Illuminating and Eversource. Both had a substandard response to Hurricane Ike, generally bad service, but prices are among the highest in the nation.
Eversource recently hiked its prices 26% in the middle of a pandemic. The legislature temporarily suspended the increase while investigating the reasons for it. The CEO was paid $20 million last year.
One senator has proposed CT moves away from for-profit providers and creates a non-profit government electricity entity. Sometimes government is the answer. Wish they go through with this but the chances are slim to none.

The city I live in in CA has a no -profit electricity provider. When I moved here 17 years ago my electric bill overnight was reduced by $100/month. I have only kept up peripherally with PG&E, but I know their rate increases have always been larger than ours. Better service and good reserves too.


I am not sorry that I don't have too deal with PG&E anymore. With the rare exception that when power usage on the PG&E network overwhelms capacity we get to share our supply and get to enjoy their lack of planning (est. Of 10 yewrs needed to upgrade their system)