keccers
@keccers.eth
“The White House’s budget for 2026 aims to slash science spending. The National Institutes of Health (NIH), the world’s biggest funder of biomedical research, faces a nearly 40% cut.” I used to care about this, and now I don’t. All of this is just rich people subsidy. If this means the end of the NIH funding biomedical research that then is commercialized and overcharged for on our dime again via Medicaid, it’s hard for me to have a problem with it. Private industry is supposedly the best at everything at all times. They can figure it out. https://archive.is/L9Lrn
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@nerdy
Pretty much all technology is the federal government getting the ball to the 99 yard line and letting private industry take the last yard for their own profit.
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keccers
@keccers.eth
I wouldn’t say that unilaterally. But certainly true of drugs at this point. The people are getting stolen from so a biotech investor can have a mansion in California with horse stables. Shut it down and send the good doctors back to their home countries
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@nerdy
Human genome project (clinton) - biotech DARPA -> internet -> personal computers Apollo Program - rocketry Etc
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keccers
@keccers.eth
I don’t have a problem with industry commercializing publicly funded technology generally. I can see how the benefits can scale even when I do not directly benefit. I just don’t see how this extends to biotech where I am often paying 2x — once to have the innovation created and again via increased premiums and tax dollars to Medicaid
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@nerdy
I agree that’s one of the worst abuses. My point is that technology will stop advancing soon after government funding for it ends.
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keccers
@keccers.eth
Can’t say that I care, especially with regard to medicine. When medicine exists, but is too expensive for most to access, it is as good as it not existing. So why would it matter
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@nerdy
Because we can fly to another country and stay at a luxury hotel and get treatment there, then take a 3 month long vacation, and take a private plane home for half the cost 😂 Literally what I found looking for surgery options a few years ago.
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keccers
@keccers.eth
Hard for me to view that as reasonable when all we are doing is driving up costs for the people that live there, and the problem is fixable by getting people to be 🤏 less greedy
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