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Doesn’t make a lot of sense. Generic insulin’s are already being made. Why not just buy those?
Which is why Blue Shield of California, as a major health care payer (which the State of California also is), has invested in doing the same thing (with the same nonprofit that has been discussed as the most likely contractor for the California state effort.)
Sometimes I feel like this is the endgame where the US overall kind of declines but California starts managing itself better and operates almost like an independent country. Probably wishful thinking but would be great.
I can’t relate at all to that sentiment. California has got to be one of the most bloated and wasteful state governments in the entire US. High taxes and nothing to show for it. The entrenched far left seems bent on destroying the middle class, driving out business, regulating everything to death and displacing merit as a selection factor. Whatever glory Cali has— tech, entertainment, farming, weather, natural beauty…
Like i said before, this is wishful thinking, but it’s not for lack of resources.
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High taxes on newcomers. Nearly nonexistent taxes on dynastic families.
California income tax has no carve outs for capital gains so I don’t know where you got that idea. Rich people specifically don’t like California because of the taxes (as compared to other No or low income tax states). I assume you are referring to property taxes, but undoubtedly any “dynastic” family is going to have more tax liability from income than from property value.
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Sometimes I feel like this is the endgame where the US overall kind of declines but California starts managing itself better and operates almost like an independent country. Probably wishful thinking but would be great.
I can’t relate at all to that sentiment. California has got to be one of the most bloated and wasteful state governments in the entire US. High taxes and nothing to show for it. The entrenched far left seems bent on destroying the middle class, driving out business, regulating everything to death and displacing merit as a selection factor. Whatever glory Cali has— tech, entertainment, farming, weather, natural beauty…
How hard would it be to found an insulin startup? This seems like the kind of problem designed to be intractable, the "busy work" of bureaucratic private health care systems.
It sounds to me like the modern process is just working up GMO yeast matabolites. I feel like the main issue is probably going to be patents and not something technical.
Edit: Answering myself here, they do not: https://www.vorys.com/publications-2574.html
Sometimes I feel like this is the endgame where the US overall kind of declines but California starts managing itself better and operates almost like an independent country. Probably wishful thinking but would be great.
My understanding (maybe wrong) is that for private drug manufacturers, the risk of lawsuits provides a strong incentive for safe, effective products.
Would a California-run facility have similar incentives?
Sometimes I feel like this is the endgame where the US overall kind of declines but California starts managing itself better and operates almost like an independent country. Probably wishful thinking but would be great.
This action might be rational actually given lack of federal regulation on healthcare, but they could just as well handle it another way, and more comprehensively (i.e. price controls, pricing transparency - yes, it's hard).
There is no obvious path forward.
I kind of think Vermont has a lot of it sorted but that's also a cultural issue, I mean, Los Angeles and Vermont might as well be on different continents.
Sometimes I feel like this is the endgame where the US overall kind of declines but California starts managing itself better and operates almost like an independent country. Probably wishful thinking but would be great.
i don't suppose you're familiar with what a dystopian nightmare the housing market is?