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Over 250 branded drugs in the U.S. will see price increases starting Jan. 1, 2025, with most hikes below 10% and a median increase of 4.5%.

Key companies like Pfizer, Bristol Myers Squibb, and Sanofi are raising prices on treatments for COVID-19, cancer, and vaccines, citing R&D costs and inflation.

Some prices, such as Merck’s diabetes drugs, will be reduced.

Critics highlight that U.S. drug prices remain the highest globally, while manufacturers face pressure to moderate year-over-year price hikes.

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Demoralize these assholes with shrines to Luigi outside their workplace. Pamphlet them with the good news of Luigi as they go to work. I think 2/3 of America found their religion that fateful day and they should know that.

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Is anyone making Luigi religious/propaganda pamphlets? Because that’s a great idea.

“Have you heard the good news? Do you feel powerless? Fear not, for you have power.” Or whatever. I’m sure someone can come up with better copy

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In my sect we believe in transubstantiation of the billionaire class into liquid carbon that gets pumped underground as the ultimate form of CCS (carbon rcapture?)

Edit: but the pamphlets could be all the anticapitalist verses in the Bible and Quran

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I’ve seen St. Luigi votive candles already. People are on it.

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There are no wealthy men in the Kingdom of Heaven. There are no billionaires in paradise. In the end, every last one of them burns.

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I would rather see them burn in this world.

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Luigi vobiscum to all pharma CEOs in 2025.

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The line must go up. Doesn’t matter that homelessness increased 18% in 2024 in the US. They need that third home and a yacht.

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They won’t even spend the money. It just builds up.

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Its almost like dragons and thier hoards. Just keep piling it up…

But they’re not magestic like dragons. Still close… Lizard people? Cold blooded. Predatory. It tracks.

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Somebody did the math already; Bezos alone has more money than is depicted in Smaugs hoard in The Hobbit

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Huh. Wonder if that’s where the Icke stuff comes from. A line drawn from dragons.

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The U.S. pays more for prescription medicines than any other country

And these people wonder why we hate them

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They don’t wonder.

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