Late edition could have easily covered it, I haven't seen them follow up on it either, it's a joke.
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Late edition could have easily covered it, I haven't seen them follow up on it either, it's a joke.
Tricky Trevor 7
Player Valuation: £1m
Fantastic gesture from Everton , hope the little one gets better , will welcome him back in February. We're all thinking of you at Everton .
Garrick
Awesome, lid.
A different pharma company did something similar with epipens recently. Bought the rights, jacked up the price, now a bunch of poor people with bee sting allergies are at risk of being killed by a common insect.
I understand completely mate, I'm in no way defending the American health system. It's jacked beyond belief. I'm just trying to offer some insight into how it works.
No Blue should bother with that rag. If they think they can get by with alienating half the city then let's see what happens if we all stop buying it.
I personally haven't bought the Echo in a decade.
I personally haven't bought the Echo in a decade.
DeanoSMB
Player Valuation: Free Transfer
http://www.sunderlandecho.com/sport...st-club-and-my-defence-of-newcastle-1-8128813
"I’m so used to laying on the sarcasm and snark so thickly it’s a wonder anyone ever takes me seriously, but believe me when I say, at this very moment, Everton are the world’s greatest football club."
"I’m so used to laying on the sarcasm and snark so thickly it’s a wonder anyone ever takes me seriously, but believe me when I say, at this very moment, Everton are the world’s greatest football club."
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ultra
Player Valuation: £20m
Most blues have grudgingly accepted the persistent bias of the rag (or, like me, not bought one for many years), but this latest episode is inexcusable. If the EFC donation had been given a front page splash (like the, admittedly, MUCH more important LFC new stand) who knows how much more money would have been raised for the lad?
I would love blues websites, forums and fan groups to organise a boycott of the Red Echo and see it finally go down the tubes where it belongs.
To be fair, there is also a huge difference in exploiting patent law to massively increase the pure profit on life-saving medication and ameliorating the costs of developing a brand new procedure.
The HIV treatment case and the Epi-pen situation are a bit different because the price increase could not be tied to any actual production cost increase, but purely the market preying upon the weak for short-term and short sighted gain (short sighted indeed, what's Shkreli up to now?).
I agree that the American health system is thoroughly screwed up, but the actual cost of cutting-edge procedures is legitimate - it should just be subsidized by the collective (which it is, to an extent through insurance companies, but they are in the business of profit, not health). Medical costs have been increasing largely due to insurance companies and a feedback loop with the medical industry (private hospitals are bizarre), so I'm sure there is some padding in the cost to the patient, but R&D is expensive.
There should be some way to get money to help people like this... The government should say " if you need treatment but the NHS cannot offer it" then the government will foot the bill to get treatment elsewhere. They could even do it through the national lottery grants ... They spend money on benefits .... Many of who don't deserve it , they build buildings that don't need to be built, they look after refugees ( which I'm not against) but why are they looking after them? Because if they go home they face death? Well this boy is at home and is facing death so why not help him too? Hate the way things like this are allowed to continue ... And this is in Britain...imagine what it's like in poorer countries...
We could have bought three Seamus Colemans with that money!
Hope the young lad gets his treatment and makes a recovery
Hope the young lad gets his treatment and makes a recovery
Baines' left foot
Player Valuation: £90m
Got some dust in my eye, ffs.
DownOnTheUpside
Player Valuation: £30m
someone who has an account drop them a link to EITC, I can't register with my emails
EITC generally have the pulse of what we're doing and do some fantastic work
Anyone know whether the family is in the USA now yet? I think their total raised so far is over 900k
tommye
Player Valuation: £120m
Not until new year. Bradley was taken back into hospital midweek and is being kept in for a few days.
His mam posted this today...
"We were allowed out of hospital for a little bit today so we popped down for lunch. Bradley is feeling pretty ok but we not allowed home till at least Tuesday. Sometimes it can feel like you in prison when we in hospital but Bradley deals with it well as usual. We have scans soon to see if the chemo has worked and if it has he will be starting another round. The more cancer that is gone in this country the cheaper it will be over the states.
How beautiful is my super brave boys smile and thanks to all of you who have helped raised the funds we hopefully will get to see this smile till he grows old
"Keep up to date here...
http://www.readytogo.net/smb/thread...wery-puts-life-in-perspective.1270610/page-91
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