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California to become first state to sell cheap insulin through state-backed program
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this post was submitted on 16 Oct 2025
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Which was also an payout to big pharma. And we illegally used those programs to sneak in spies. While we’re blocking Cuba from distributing cancer vaccines and covid vaccines.
Let’s not pretend we were good before this.
There have been plenty of people involved in those programs talking about them online since they were repealed and that they aren't motivated at the politcal level by altruism and that they have done an incredible amount of good in the world are both true statements.
Are you going to be grateful someone came to your home to give you medicine, if they use it to sneak in someone who will burn down your home?
What a terminally online hypothetical. IRL, people are insanely grateful to get free medicine and crushed that it's gone.
There’s a growing number of countries that refuse to allow aid orgs in, due to the continued illegal use of them to smuggle in intelligence officers. Not what I would call “insanely grateful.”