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      Virtually all chemical compounds used to manufacture all pharmaceuticals in the world come from China and India in massive, massive quantities

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        Dental silicas do. Some come from the UK. Titanium dioxide from Czech. Sodium saccharine/Saccharine sodium from China.

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    Found this recently and I’m betting it ties into this somehow: H.R.661 - MIRACLE Medical Technology Act of 2025. https://www.congress.gov/bill/119th-congress/house-bill/661

    Introduced in House (01/23/2025)

    Maximizing Israel-U.S. Research Advancement and Collaborative Leadership in Emerging Medical Technology Act of 2025 or the MIRACLE Medical Technology Act of 2025

    This bill requires the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) to implement a program for the United States and Israel to collaborate on developing and delivering health care products and services. The program must include coordinated activities in specified areas, including research and development, use of innovative technology, intellectual property protection, regulatory harmonization, disease prevention, and biological product manufacturing. The bill authorizes HHS to establish a joint United States-Israel Health Care Collaboration Center in the United States to leverage existing expertise for advancing the program’s purposes.

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    Isn’t Ozempic already mad expensive in the US compared to Denmark where it comes from?

    Perhaps he thinks Ozempic actually is harvested in Greenland? :-D

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    Great. Now that I finally got my 100$/mo med that I need.

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    This motherfucker is literally gonna kill me by making my already unaffordable cancer meds really insanely unaffordable.

    Something like almost half of generic medications are made in India.

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        Look, I’ve been worried about being under surveillance for my political views and personal connections since the Bush era (made friends in college with middle eastern exhange students who went back to their home country and kept in touch). Technically (not really) being part of the queer community because I date transwomen (transwomen are women, duh) further complicates the matter. Not looking to be the first white cisman US citizen to be disappeared to El Salvador, thanks.

        If I manage to leave the country I better god damn have a plan to not have to come back and to get some form of political asylum elsewhere.

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      Something like almost half of generic medications are made in India.

      Is this for cancer drugs or generics in general? Only asking because most of the generics I see in the UK are made here, but that might be because I’ve only seen the more common medications and not stuff like cancer drugs.

      Hope you manage to beat the cancer!

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        India makes a huge amount of drugs. The UK probably just doesn’t import them.

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        You might not see them made in India on the label since the tablet is assembled in UK but the API (the molecule that actually does the job) and additives might be sourced elsewhere. China and India produce a lot of them. They might also sell precursors later used to make API in UK so there might be always some contribution form India / China etc.

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    Great. As if the American people weren’t already paying too much for medication. Now, they’re going to be paying more. And Trump is going to blame it on tariffs—that he started.

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      He’ll be blaming it on the retaliatory tariffs.

      His tariffs are the best/perfect, it’s all these unnecessary tariffs these other countries insist on imposing in response that are to blame 🤹‍♂️

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    i was recently prescribed a life changing medication that has given me the opportunity to have my lifespan return to normal as it is currently reduced, and i am noticing true positive improvement for the first time living with this illness, and i feel like i can start regaining my identity, and my physical and mental wellbeing, and now the president of my country is going to make this already expensive drug even more costly? what am i supposed to do, just stop taking it? what is anyone with a worse condition than me supposed to do for their illness? what about people with severe mental disorders that might be invisible to the public but struggle deeply all the same? this will lead to unnecessary deaths. every time the medical supply is messed with, people die. this needs to be met with more than outrage. Trump is signing a death warrant on ill Americans. who are you willing to sacrifice so you don’t have to get involved? because, again, people are going to die.

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      I take a topical for atopic dermatitis that is better tolerated than a topical corticosteroid. And it’s primarily made in India as a generic. Also because topical corticosteroids long term effects are rebound disease and skin atrophy.

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        As someone who was considering taking a week off work as I would have needed to attend Donald Duck style to avoid fabric-on-leg contact, tell me more about this well tolerated topical

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          if you havedermatitis, exzema, you can try tacrolimus, or another inhibitor like elidel(pimecrolimus). you will have to avoid sunlight for a couple hours though(it does cause itching but that goes away after continious uses)if exposed to sunlight it amplifies the ithcing, warm feeling. some people dont like the itching or the sensations, it goes way after a while.

          unlike the steroid it wont cause thinning or rebound effect(aka steroid withdrawal), safe for use of the eyes. you have to ask the derm for it though.

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      He’s a Nazi. It’s actually an efficient way to get rid of all ill people that are not rich. Don’t need no concentration camps yet.

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        And for those who aren’t rich but have jobs with decent employer-provided healthcare, it will make those people fearful of undertaking any protest actions that may see them on the wrong side of a doxxing campaign or an illegal detention.

        It’s about threading fear through the fabric of society.