Article is unreadable. The auther is trying to be funny and clever but it just ends up being a slog. Im like 4 paragraphs in and still have no idea what Hims did wrong at all. Just present the information...
The Hollow Men of Hims
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#202Earlier quoted context omitted.
It’s possible for both you and the article to be right. The system sucks, but Hims are also terrible, and medical care should not be like Amazon prime.
Yea the US healthcare system is truly, truly awful, but that does not justify a turn to supplements, quackery, faith healers and witch doctors. The fact that people are turning towards these things should be a wake up call to the medical system, but then again the medical system misses wake up calls over and over…
The only thing they will "wake up" to is that they could be doing the same thing and probably make more money doing it.
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#203Semaglutide / GLP-1 compounding is not limited to just Hims. Lot's of pharmacies do it. The manufacturer (Novo Nordisk) charges 5x-10x for the exact same thing. The author calls the GLP-1s used in compounding "Chinese Knockoffs", but offers no evidence of quality control problems, and is instead relying on the reader's prejudices. GLP-1 drugs may be a game-changer for obesity and diabetes, the same way that cholester…
Isn't the point of regulation to set the bar you must prove you meet, rather than a bar you must prove others haven't met?
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#204Given the healthcare bureaucracy in America, it's hard to find anything for the consumer to be mad about here other than the quality of the medications. The intended audience of this article must be pharma and healthcare investors, not consumers. As with most products, companies need a way to make promises to consumers about what's in the products. The only way the consumers will believe those promises is if the cons…
I see a lot of complaints about "the healthcare bureaucracy in America". And I don't doubt that it exists. But I will say the limited number of times I've needed to interact with the system it was surprisingly cheap and downright pleasant. The only negative experiences I've had is interacting with government run health systems (the VA).
Yeah, they're real good at doing needless work with a smile on their face.
Next time you go to a GP's office for no reason other than to gatekeep a specialist you know you need ask yourself what all those people are being paid for any why the situation deserves anything more than someone on the order of an RN saying "yeah looks like an infection to me" via a screen, to pick but one example.
Like all bureaucracy, every single part of the system has some skin deep reason to justify its existence or scope but when you take a step back and look at it all you'll find that huge swaths are either redundant or completely unnecessary, and that the industry is rife with this BS from top to bottom and we're all made effectively poorer for it.
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#205> The genius of Hims lies in understanding that consumers will pay almost any premium to avoid the humiliation of discussing erectile dysfunction or hair loss with an actual human being. Maybe. > Finasteride for hair loss runs about $10-15 per month as a generic, I wish. Generic finasteride costs ~$70+t¹/3mo but only from a PBM, and $80/mo from a pharmacy, and is utterly uncovered by insurance. Or maybe, it is that t…
>> The genius of Hims lies in understanding that consumers will pay almost any premium to avoid the humiliation of discussing erectile dysfunction or hair loss with an actual human being.
>Maybe.
It's like the author has never hung out with men over the age of about 25-30. That stuff is all broadly considered a laughing matter.
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#206Earlier quoted context omitted.
> and you might have permanent health complications (rare though they might be). Does obesity have permanent health complications and cost you extra in premiums?
There are other options for addressing obesity than "semaglutide or nothing".
Not according to the data about the change in proportion of obese people over time.
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Safe and effective. Side effects are very rare and are usually limited to soreness at the site of injection. Recommend everyone who is recommended semaglutide by a relevant authority, to get it. The obesity epidemic is a national security concern
I don't think the question was whether semaglutide was safe, but whether the version that Hims sells is safe. That includes things like being free from contaminants, stability of the compound, etc.
How would you even test for that?
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#208Earlier quoted context omitted.
I don't think the question was whether semaglutide was safe, but whether the version that Hims sells is safe. That includes things like being free from contaminants, stability of the compound, etc.
> I don't think the question was whether semaglutide was safe, but whether the version that Hims sells is safe. Don’t forget “effective” too. If you just make the bar “safety” then you are accepting sugar pills as medicine for whatever condition. You should need to prove both safety AND effectiveness.
Sugar is arguably more “effective” than it is “safe.” But I know you are referring to sugar pills not sugar diet
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#209Earlier quoted context omitted.
Safe and effective. Side effects are very rare and are usually limited to soreness at the site of injection. Recommend everyone who is recommended semaglutide by a relevant authority, to get it. The obesity epidemic is a national security concern
Yup. And using it as the wonder drug it is, I.e women using it to get “beach bodies” should be celebrated and not stigmatized. I want bodily autonomy and control. The right to experiment with weight loss drugs is analogous to the right to be trans or to not have your foreskin removed at birth. It’s crazy that these drugs even have further benefits like anti addiction properties!
Miracle drugs. I wouldn’t be mad if we made these injections required for entry into public schools or employment