For medical care the free market doesn't always work.I (as an english man) can not imagine living in a country where I can't call for an ambulance and be treat without being asked for money at time of treatment.
Or a world where FireFighters ask for money before fighting the fire.
Or police who refuse to help because I'm not insured with their company.
due to being british and badass and have to take asacol mine cost 7:40 a month in a year thats 88.80 thats about 140 us dollors. 670 us dollors in the us is around 5 years worth of pills here in the uk. there some math to prove that the nhs is needed
Actually this medications costs the same amount in Canada, and did even then. I know this because my father also suffers from Colitis, and has been taking this medication for almost 7 years.
I've noticed a trend that any sector Nerdfighteria expands into thusly becomes more awesome. So....nerdfighter pharmacists/whatever-people-who-makes-drugs-are-called, get to it.
Whoooooa. Just realized something. next to Astercol HD there is a medication called Loestrin.. I used to take this drug, and then had to stop taking it because it went from $30 a month to over $100 a month, and as a teenager, I can NOT afford that.. I have said before that I was "Warner Chilcotted" in an effort to make the word a curse word, but NEVER did I realize that I too was LEGITAMATELY WARNER CHILCOTTED.. *mindblown*
@thatnerdgirl2012 I used to take that same thing! My copay was through the roof before it went generic. Hmm, I never knew it was Warner Chilcott stuff.
I love how I looked at the title and thought he meant "own" like "pwn" and then it was like, "Oh. . .he actually OWNS it." and I love nerdfighters so much.
@ChelsieOliviaa Aw yeah, switch over to Canada's system America! Great healthcare here :D I have plenty of medications and they cost me little to diddly-squat. I cannot fathom how someone could pay $650 a month just for medication...wow
(Part deux) But the society who rather be healthy and somewhat bald, are more likely to have health-focused offspring, thus getting the society that both want it and get it. Instead of people in a super efficient regulated world, that deep inside just wish they weren't bald.
(Too bad it would probably drag our whole society down, and bald monkeys will some day rule the world)
(part 1) How about bringing evolution into the free market mix? By not regulating the pharmaceutical industry, we would get really kick ass anti-bald cream but shitty and expensive health-related medicine. But over time, the unhealthy society(although with beautiful hair) would most likely go extinct.
uuuh ooooh uuh ooh you you you- have...a woody guthrie picture framed hanging on your wall. - i admit this is the first video i watch of the vlogbrothers and a woody gurthrie picture automatically makes you aaaaaweeessssooommmee.
To be fair, drug prescriptions aren't really a free market. Drug companies obtain monopolies through patents. Therefore, companies can sell products at very high prices.
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Awwwww I wish my big sis would buy 100 stocks of the company that's making a product that keeps me alive but pulled this Warner Chilcott and pissed me off for meeeeeeeee XDDDDDDD
I actually looked up the stock prices of warner chilcott (which he said he bought a 100 of) and on the 26th (they day he bought it) it was $25 ea and on the 27th (the day after) it was $26 meaning it had dropped $1 lol... = $100 lost..
My thing I like to point out is both videos misrepresent the Canadian health care, but in particular John misrepresents how the Canadian health care system works. It is forgivable because most Canadians do not understand how the health care system works.
Myth 1: There is no national health care in Canada. Section 92 of the British North American act of 1867 clearly makes health care a Provincial responsibility. The Federal government chips in about 30% of the cost with certain conditions.
Myth 2: It is not that the Governments negotiates with drug companies, it is essential they threaten to steal the patent and allow generic producers to make the exact same drug.
Myth 3: Rationing, even if a drug exist that could cure or treat a disease this does not ensure the patient will get it. The administrators may determine that the cost versus benefit factors is too low and thus not worth attempt.
And Warner Chilcott is just like every other big business owner: they only care about profits, not people. They should be killed for the betterment of humanity.
It's rather ingenious (if I do say so myself, and I do), but I want to make sure I get this right. So think I'm going to fully form this thought and make a video response.
I how many shares nerdfighteria could get, wouldnt that be sweet, a majority on warner chilcott of nerdfighteria! first company owned by the nerdfighteria empire!
Drug companies are worse than drug dealers, they could make drugs to cure cancer and such but like John said it does not make them as much profit. They sound like a sinister pig to me.
@savvyjo97 He can afford it, even if it is ungodly expensive, and since we haven't had any news of his untimely death, I'd say that he does have the meds. Even if Warner Chilcott is Warner Chilcott-ing him on the price.
@LaLuBeauty I would love to have a great answer to that, but i honestly don't know. I know we have a lot of clinics that is actually free, and that you can get support from the government if you've lost your job, are sick or any other reason that you can't work.
Okay Nerdfighters! Here's a question, if Canada and the United States (lets just say those two for simplicities sake) administer cures to all countries with a malaria epidemic for all the people who have malaria, as well as the means to keep them malaria free (not sure if this would come with surplus medicine or education), would the cost of this be more than the economic boom that all these newly healthy people who could work create?
A friend and I are arguing this and I was wondering if the
I've got to admit it took me a couple watches to fully grasp what John is saying, but now that I get it, it's like "I'm glad I live in Canada, cause it kinda sucks down in the US."
@TheEllipsis731 i stand by my previous statement. more money goes to baldness than malaria because more bald people have a voice to demand it and money ready to buy the cure. malaria, usually associated w/ poverty and sub-saharan africa, does not get this same voice because they do not have the money ready to buy the cure- also, they might die before they get the word out to our big pharms that they need a cure. big pharm is 'more interested' in baldness because there is readily money to be made
I think it's important to realize, too, that these companies spend billions of dollars on research and development costs. Medical research is expensive. The only way to recuperate these costs is by putting a patent on the medicine they create and selling at the appropriate price according to the demand from consumers. Should they realize any profits in the end, they would spend it on further R&D for other medicines. They're a business, who makes money, but that's not really their goal.
i was in Costco today and i thought about buying a book. Now, as a personal choice(and because you made me realize its bad) i do not buy books at walmart. SO is buying a book at costco bad too? or just wal-mart?
I love that fact that I am 26 and Iv'e had type1 diabeties for 22 years. I spend about 500 a month on insulin and other supplies to stay alive. Its sucks I can't get medicaid or government assistance because I didn't get knocked up at an earl age and I choose working and going to school to better my life. But until I get a degree and a job with health insurance I just have to hope I can afford it and not die.
John, it's awesome how you're able to bring a big issue into your video without turning it into a political bashing of the other side. The fact that you can do this is truly admirable.
Hank should move to the UK where if you need meds to stay alive, they give it to you for free, I'm sure that we more than likely paying through the nose for something else in some other way but, you know, it's just an interim solution lol
Here's my Warner Chillcot Fail Story: So there was this girl that I liked and I was thinking about asking her out, and then it was like, "No maybe she's not gay". Because I'm a girl, and stuff....then at the night class we go to a girl was talking about her boyfriend and this girl I liked said, "Oh yeah my girlfriend (blah blah blah) Oh yeah I forgot to tell you guys, I'm bi." and my first hought was "Oh, isnt that special?" and my second thought was, "Warner Chilcott. F***."
@goodi2shooz hey hey easy now. In my opinion (as a Canadian), yes, people die and in the end, universal health care can't stop that but at lest having a chance is nice. There's no such thing as a perfect system but at least there's one where more people have an equal chance. People also survive after waiting for a lifesaving treatment but there is definately ALWAYS room for improvement
@goodi2shooz Nah not really. My sister is extremely ill and has almost died multiple times from abscesses and has received treatment for each one. Without universal health-care she would most likely either be dead or our family would be in massive debt.
@SteveVader101 or suddenly decided to charge Remus 69 Galleons per cup. (That's $700 US Dollars according to the HP Lexicon USD to Galleons converter)
i vote we each go purchase one of warner chilcott stock so that, as a whole, we can decide what fair and negotiable price to assign to hank's (and others) meds
I'm afraid the young man at How The World Works bested you in this debate. In a perfect world I would side with you, but we don't live in a perfect world...that's why you lose.
He bought 100 shares, not 100% of the shares... lol.
And by doing so, he forces his opinion on said company, because he owns part of said company.
You go, John. You go.
Also, finished Will Grayson, Will Grayson this morning. Let's ignore the fact that it took me this long and enjoy the point I'm trying to make, which is, it's right next to Looking For Alaska in my list of favorite books ever.
Woa John you are awesome! I hope you become more then 1/12millionth (or whatever) owner of that company so you can do something equally awesome with it. You're so right about them wanting money not curing their customers
I had a dream about John and Hank two nights ago and I was married to Hank and John came to visit us but they weren't related. The funniest part of my dream was the fact that I wanted John to sign some of his books that I had and upon coming to mine and Hank's home, John promptly signed my books, insulted my husband, flipped us off and left.
@saikogrrl canada has free health care. people pay higher taxes there so that they can get their drugs and other health stuff at a much lower price. that's what Obama-care was trying to do, but it didn't go over so well, which is why Hank has to pay $600 for a tiny bottle of pills.
@chestercherry So, you're saying that Obama's health care law directly caused the price of Hank's medicine to go up by 1200% over night?! I hope I'm not being too nosy when I ask, 'What planet are you from?'
@corr14 I think what chester was saying was that Obama's health care scheme might have made things more affordable or easier, but it didn't get fully approved, so meds are still expensive?
@corr14 nonono. sorry, that's not what i'm saying AT ALL. I was trying to say was that Canadians pay a lot more on their taxes so that the government can help pay for their meds, and that's kind of what Obama's health care reform was trying to do. Hank's meds went up so high cuz he buys them from an organization whose goal is to make profits, and they do that by finding the cheapest way to make their product and then sell it for stupidly high prices. Sorry, i didn't articulate myself very well.
@chestercherry that sounds awesome. We have something similar in Australia called medicare, which helps offset costs for people who can't afford private health insurance, with things like a low income card which sometimes means meds for like $9 which is fantastic.
What I wonder is, why can't all countries be like Canada? I wonder what it is about that country that allowed them to implement this scheme when it isn't working in America. something to do with an unregulated market like John said?
Definition: Warner Chilcott, a debase human being who's only goal in life is to make more money than anyone else even if that means lying, cheating.
These humans are utterly greedy and should be avoided if possible.
one00023 2 days ago
For medical care the free market doesn't always work.I (as an english man) can not imagine living in a country where I can't call for an ambulance and be treat without being asked for money at time of treatment.
Or a world where FireFighters ask for money before fighting the fire.
Or police who refuse to help because I'm not insured with their company.
thing2liv 3 days ago
1:38 I am playing Call of Duty while watching this video.
heyitssully 1 week ago
Wait...did he spend $2,399 on shares?
XxiloveGWxX 1 week ago
The lesson that we can learn from all this: move to Canada!
Peterincan 1 week ago in playlist Uploaded videos 4
LOL, the stock price went down to 16.42 (from 23.99)... I hope you sold your stock before it went down!
mikiquicna 2 weeks ago
due to being british and badass and have to take asacol mine cost 7:40 a month in a year thats 88.80 thats about 140 us dollors. 670 us dollors in the us is around 5 years worth of pills here in the uk. there some math to prove that the nhs is needed
massmurder7 2 weeks ago
NHS!!!
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Actually this medications costs the same amount in Canada, and did even then. I know this because my father also suffers from Colitis, and has been taking this medication for almost 7 years.
NightcrawlerofR 3 weeks ago
I've noticed a trend that any sector Nerdfighteria expands into thusly becomes more awesome. So....nerdfighter pharmacists/whatever-people-who-makes-drugs-are-called, get to it.
That is all.
MrWhonut 1 month ago 3
The price of WC stock now is $16.70. John has lost $729.
G3Du 1 month ago
@G3Du I think he got out of that stock already.
funkid220 1 month ago
Also, I'm totally using the phrase "Well, you can go WARNER CHILCOTT yourself" from now on.
commenter2498 1 month ago
The moral of this video? VLOGBROTHERS SHOULD MOVE TO CANADA.
commenter2498 1 month ago 3
Whats funny is that Warner Chilcot has lost about 30% of its stock value since John bought into it :P
zionpc1 1 month ago 2
Warner Chilcott's stock prices are surprisingly low.
opticalecho119 1 month ago
That is why we in the UK have the NHS
Also, "I do not believe Walmart should be allowed to sell highly enriched uranium" made me giggle
radioactivecakeX 1 month ago
Whoooooa. Just realized something. next to Astercol HD there is a medication called Loestrin.. I used to take this drug, and then had to stop taking it because it went from $30 a month to over $100 a month, and as a teenager, I can NOT afford that.. I have said before that I was "Warner Chilcotted" in an effort to make the word a curse word, but NEVER did I realize that I too was LEGITAMATELY WARNER CHILCOTTED.. *mindblown*
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@thatnerdgirl2012 I used to take that same thing! My copay was through the roof before it went generic. Hmm, I never knew it was Warner Chilcott stuff.
FiveOhToo 1 month ago
three letters NHS
teamjacobno1 1 month ago 4
Wait, that laptop looks to be plugged in, but the plugs shadow is not. Whats going on?!?!?!?
jmar4life 1 month ago
I always feel 1200% smarter when I finish listening to John or Hank talk.
tayalexandraxo 1 month ago 4
Just want to point out, since the making of this video Warner Chilcotts stock price has gone down $6.55.
ZeroXAgony 1 month ago
At first I kinda thought that you bought Warner Chilcott stock just to rub Hank's face in it.
Like "Haw haw! I'm supporting the people that are making your life suuuuuck!"
Melchary 1 month ago in playlist More videos from vlogbrothers
@Melchary that is exactly what he did.
hotshot3434 1 month ago
GUYS! We should all buy shares. AND NERDFIGHTERS WOULD OWN SOMETHING THAT KEEPS PEOPLE ALIVE! Not that we don't already but hey.
Sandclaw123 1 month ago
more Generic drugs!
Unknownboi88 1 month ago
Hold on John spent $2399 to make a point? Commitment.
phoenixfeathered 1 month ago 3
@phoenixfeathered No, it was $23.99. Not $2399
Dininann 1 month ago
@Dininann Ah, but he bought one hundred shares :)
phoenixfeathered 1 month ago
@phoenixfeathered Ahhh, touché my friend.
Dininann 1 month ago
I get my drugs for free! Yay for socialized medicine!
Ijustsawahippogriff 1 month ago
The stock price has gone down significantly. On there, it was $23.99. I just checked, and it is now $16.27. Interesting.
otakubabe555 1 month ago 6
he works for me
TheAwsomeguy9000 1 month ago
You can get your colon removed... like i did. fuck ulcerative colitis
deathblade111 2 months ago
@deathblade111 but I like pooping out of my but... not my side into little bags
sciencenerd111 1 month ago
I love how I looked at the title and thought he meant "own" like "pwn" and then it was like, "Oh. . .he actually OWNS it." and I love nerdfighters so much.
slytherclawful 2 months ago
1:10 kind of made my day.
mcrlessthanthree 2 months ago 2
Wow.
You are the only one who could articulate the importance and economic efficiency of universal healthcare so well.
If people didn't have to spend their money on healthcare, everyone would make more,
and while taxes would be higher, they wouldn't be outrageously higher.
And as you mentioned, that extra money would be pumped into the economy as consumer confidence increases.
ChelsieOliviaa 2 months ago 2
@ChelsieOliviaa Aw yeah, switch over to Canada's system America! Great healthcare here :D I have plenty of medications and they cost me little to diddly-squat. I cannot fathom how someone could pay $650 a month just for medication...wow
LINDSAYLIKEOMG 2 months ago
Warner Chilcott's stock has gone down from around $23 in this video to around $15 today :D
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(Part deux) But the society who rather be healthy and somewhat bald, are more likely to have health-focused offspring, thus getting the society that both want it and get it. Instead of people in a super efficient regulated world, that deep inside just wish they weren't bald.
(Too bad it would probably drag our whole society down, and bald monkeys will some day rule the world)
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(part 1) How about bringing evolution into the free market mix? By not regulating the pharmaceutical industry, we would get really kick ass anti-bald cream but shitty and expensive health-related medicine. But over time, the unhealthy society(although with beautiful hair) would most likely go extinct.
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135 people,are stocks holders
mrlonelyh 2 months ago
Well said, John. Well said.
ConfusedShipper123 2 months ago
John was simply proving a point man, go nerdfighters!
SkyrimFTWin 3 months ago
@zekeoman What the hell, dude?
ML3bee 3 months ago in playlist More videos from vlogbrothers
john and hank should run the entire earth. hank gets the western hemisphere and john gets the eastern
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I never, ever thought I'd say this 2 u, John but GO F**K YOURSELF YOU UNFEELING SON OF A B**CH!!!!!
zekeoman1 4 months ago
@zekeoman1 I think you may have missed the point
whiteforestfox 3 months ago 4
Sick of tonsillitis now. Bought meds by Abbott. Apparently, they Warner Chilcott too. Each tablet is a hundred Pesos.
girlfromwintercourt 5 months ago
I'm going to start telling people to "go Warner Chilcott" themselves, now. :D
TheDandyLion88 6 months ago 10
Okay, I'm sold on Universal healthcare
TheSugarRay 6 months ago 9
What if a bunch of Nerdfighters...
I dunno...
ALSO bought stock in Warner Chilcott...
and then Nerdfighteria would OWN it...
Literally.
ReKrisB 7 months ago 278
I think I should move to Canada now.
doclovesorange 7 months ago 5
Logic. Hurts my head.
beblondbird 7 months ago 2
Nice Woody Guthrie poster :P
happysquidd 7 months ago
I'm gonna be on Loestrin24Fe... and when I saw the Warner Chilcott label on it, I was like, "Holy shit. WARNER CHILCOTT."
The reviews of this pill are awful, btw. I'm scared. :(
CuteSmokes 7 months ago
if you taught my class, i would actually learn something.
MAYBEDEADCATherine 9 months ago 120
@MAYBEDEADCATherine And so CrashCourse was born.
lemake72 2 weeks ago
@MAYBEDEADCATherine Hey person from the past, person from the future: Check out Crash Course. It's fantastic.
g2theIrishPianist 5 days ago
@g2theIrishPianist I've been following it since it started!
MAYBEDEADCATherine 4 days ago
Warner Chilcott also makes the pills I take.
You don't even know how nerdraged I was when I realized that.
>:/
andtheydanced 9 months ago
uuuh ooooh uuh ooh you you you- have...a woody guthrie picture framed hanging on your wall. - i admit this is the first video i watch of the vlogbrothers and a woody gurthrie picture automatically makes you aaaaaweeessssooommmee.
schokaholik 9 months ago 4
@schokaholik Hank's Guitar is a parody of this seen in his background quite often. Welcome to Nerfighteria!
ADDawning 9 months ago 3
@ADDawning is their a video where John explains the woody guthrie picture or why Hank's guitar is a parody of this? thank you.
schokaholik 9 months ago
@schokaholik there is but i don't know where it is, I've looked for a while now, but I can't find it.
ADDawning 9 months ago
131 people should go Warner Chilcot themselves.
topcat3768 9 months ago
✓ Move to England
✓ Get free healthcare
✓ ???
✓ PROFIT
MasterPebsie 9 months ago 3
@MasterPebsie But think about the lack of fluoride! I love my teeeeths
Cakevspie94 8 months ago
NHS ftw :P
Mooncalfproductions 9 months ago
To be fair, drug prescriptions aren't really a free market. Drug companies obtain monopolies through patents. Therefore, companies can sell products at very high prices.
TheSuperImmortalKing 9 months ago
Dear John, Thank you for helping me with my economics paper. :)
guitargrrl100 10 months ago
Argh John don't call yourself a capatalist
Elz630 10 months ago
Wow... the idea of paying $500 a month for a drug you need to *survive* is just so strange...
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1nerdfighters 10 months ago
Awwwww I wish my big sis would buy 100 stocks of the company that's making a product that keeps me alive but pulled this Warner Chilcott and pissed me off for meeeeeeeee XDDDDDDD
DoctorH0RRIBLE 10 months ago
Hahah other then COD
Awesomesauseness19 11 months ago
I actually looked up the stock prices of warner chilcott (which he said he bought a 100 of) and on the 26th (they day he bought it) it was $25 ea and on the 27th (the day after) it was $26 meaning it had dropped $1 lol... = $100 lost..
montazarmontazarmont 11 months ago
My thing I like to point out is both videos misrepresent the Canadian health care, but in particular John misrepresents how the Canadian health care system works. It is forgivable because most Canadians do not understand how the health care system works.
Myth 1: There is no national health care in Canada. Section 92 of the British North American act of 1867 clearly makes health care a Provincial responsibility. The Federal government chips in about 30% of the cost with certain conditions.
MrAdBaculum 11 months ago
Myth 2: It is not that the Governments negotiates with drug companies, it is essential they threaten to steal the patent and allow generic producers to make the exact same drug.
Myth 3: Rationing, even if a drug exist that could cure or treat a disease this does not ensure the patient will get it. The administrators may determine that the cost versus benefit factors is too low and thus not worth attempt.
MrAdBaculum 11 months ago
WTWC.
(What The Warner Chilcott)
iiwindy 11 months ago
Warner Chilcott can go Warner Chilcott itself
graybutcolorful 11 months ago 4
i like your videos
iAintJesus 11 months ago
a perfect argument against privatization of medical care. you are awesome for this.
weissweiss 11 months ago
WOOT fo Canada!
equalcharliebrown 11 months ago
And Warner Chilcott is just like every other big business owner: they only care about profits, not people. They should be killed for the betterment of humanity.
texaschizophrenic 11 months ago
Considering we cant often feed the people who DO exist, how can we afford to feed/house those who all live?
Not being negative, just honest.
texaschizophrenic 11 months ago
This gives me an idea...
It's rather ingenious (if I do say so myself, and I do), but I want to make sure I get this right. So think I'm going to fully form this thought and make a video response.
regularguy5mb 11 months ago
"Except, perhaps, Call of Duty" xD xD xD
TheSilentRebellion 11 months ago
I checked, Warner Chilcott is now officially on Urban Dictionary.
copilot10 11 months ago
OMG... You have a huge forehead.
971redhead 11 months ago
I how many shares nerdfighteria could get, wouldnt that be sweet, a majority on warner chilcott of nerdfighteria! first company owned by the nerdfighteria empire!
RuleOfZealot 11 months ago
He. Is. So. Eloquent. O.O
yuyube23 11 months ago
I watched this whole thing... But half way through I can't even remember what he said in the first 25 seconds.
welcome763 1 year ago
Drug companies are worse than drug dealers, they could make drugs to cure cancer and such but like John said it does not make them as much profit. They sound like a sinister pig to me.
Raiderhater1013 1 year ago
I don't get it. Is Hank's medicine less or what? Will(Has) he get(gotten) a new medicine?
savvyjo97 1 year ago
@savvyjo97 He can afford it, even if it is ungodly expensive, and since we haven't had any news of his untimely death, I'd say that he does have the meds. Even if Warner Chilcott is Warner Chilcott-ing him on the price.
ihonestlydontknow 1 year ago
@LaLuBeauty I would love to have a great answer to that, but i honestly don't know. I know we have a lot of clinics that is actually free, and that you can get support from the government if you've lost your job, are sick or any other reason that you can't work.
fettcp 1 year ago
Look up Warner Chilcot on Urban Dictionary ;)
i love nerdfighters :D
CaitysRAWR 1 year ago 212
Lol...do you ever blink? Ever?!
Maybe this non-blinking skill is something only authors aquire from the many hours of staring into their computer screen.
AbstractGrace 1 year ago
@AbstractGrace my sister almost never blinks and she is always on the computer
LittleBeeBistro 1 year ago
Okay Nerdfighters! Here's a question, if Canada and the United States (lets just say those two for simplicities sake) administer cures to all countries with a malaria epidemic for all the people who have malaria, as well as the means to keep them malaria free (not sure if this would come with surplus medicine or education), would the cost of this be more than the economic boom that all these newly healthy people who could work create?
A friend and I are arguing this and I was wondering if the
StacyJoCo 1 year ago
I'm confused
nillie1234 1 year ago
ahhh the joys of socialised medicine we get our drugs for free :)
daydreambeliver01 1 year ago
Make your own political party and call it the Decreasing Worldsuckians, then run for president
nerdunitofhunain 1 year ago
John ( insert sarcastic tone) but that's socialism.
tya8413 1 year ago
I've got to admit it took me a couple watches to fully grasp what John is saying, but now that I get it, it's like "I'm glad I live in Canada, cause it kinda sucks down in the US."
Nani101 1 year ago
@TheEllipsis731 i stand by my previous statement. more money goes to baldness than malaria because more bald people have a voice to demand it and money ready to buy the cure. malaria, usually associated w/ poverty and sub-saharan africa, does not get this same voice because they do not have the money ready to buy the cure- also, they might die before they get the word out to our big pharms that they need a cure. big pharm is 'more interested' in baldness because there is readily money to be made
trickpanda 1 year ago
I really like how you mentioned Canada.Thanks :)
daniarseneau13 1 year ago 3
so wait he is saying that hank is screwed???? please someone explains
Shwartzer 1 year ago
so wait he is saying that hank is screwed????
Shwartzer 1 year ago
wait, is 100 stock = 1/2,000,000 the total or 1/2,000,000,000 the total?
ChefPJ12 1 year ago
aside from Call of Duty hahahaha
jetftrkitty 1 year ago
I think it's important to realize, too, that these companies spend billions of dollars on research and development costs. Medical research is expensive. The only way to recuperate these costs is by putting a patent on the medicine they create and selling at the appropriate price according to the demand from consumers. Should they realize any profits in the end, they would spend it on further R&D for other medicines. They're a business, who makes money, but that's not really their goal.
iamcoolstephen1234 1 year ago
Why aren't you my teacher? WHY??? FOR GOD'S SAKE WHY? You could teach ANYTHING.
Serphaet 1 year ago 5
Quick, everybody google bomb 'Warner Chilcott Sucks.'
MirandaTheSlytherin 1 year ago 4
i was in Costco today and i thought about buying a book. Now, as a personal choice(and because you made me realize its bad) i do not buy books at walmart. SO is buying a book at costco bad too? or just wal-mart?
fluffofnine 1 year ago
@fluffofnine try to buy one at a non-national conpany like an independent bookstore
Shwartzer 1 year ago
...ouch.
MrWonderBlast 1 year ago
I love that fact that I am 26 and Iv'e had type1 diabeties for 22 years. I spend about 500 a month on insulin and other supplies to stay alive. Its sucks I can't get medicaid or government assistance because I didn't get knocked up at an earl age and I choose working and going to school to better my life. But until I get a degree and a job with health insurance I just have to hope I can afford it and not die.
Cattibry 1 year ago
Run. For. President.
TheCrawfcon 1 year ago 538
@TheCrawfcon He would have most of YouTube/a lot of the internet/most nerds on his side. That is a lot..... I would vote for him! :D
971redhead 11 months ago
@TheCrawfcon Never mind president, these two guys should run for joint world leadership!
adamcsilk21 11 months ago
@TheCrawfcon Yeah and then Dan Brown could be vice!
videocatcher234 6 months ago 4
He makes sense. He would not win. @TheCrawfcon
jimbo59153 5 months ago
John, it's awesome how you're able to bring a big issue into your video without turning it into a political bashing of the other side. The fact that you can do this is truly admirable.
LeonNLK 1 year ago
hi john, i would very much appreciate it if you could respond to my video response. i would love to hear your thoughts!
jablosworld 1 year ago
wow. That was brilliantly put. It's all about money. It always is :/
bittersweet913 1 year ago
Hank should move to the UK where if you need meds to stay alive, they give it to you for free, I'm sure that we more than likely paying through the nose for something else in some other way but, you know, it's just an interim solution lol
lisacles 1 year ago
Here's my Warner Chillcot Fail Story: So there was this girl that I liked and I was thinking about asking her out, and then it was like, "No maybe she's not gay". Because I'm a girl, and stuff....then at the night class we go to a girl was talking about her boyfriend and this girl I liked said, "Oh yeah my girlfriend (blah blah blah) Oh yeah I forgot to tell you guys, I'm bi." and my first hought was "Oh, isnt that special?" and my second thought was, "Warner Chilcott. F***."
ihopeyoulikethis1 1 year ago
yeah.. we see how well universal healthcare works in canada and england...where people DIE waiting for a life saving treatment...
goodi2shooz 1 year ago
@goodi2shooz hey hey easy now. In my opinion (as a Canadian), yes, people die and in the end, universal health care can't stop that but at lest having a chance is nice. There's no such thing as a perfect system but at least there's one where more people have an equal chance. People also survive after waiting for a lifesaving treatment but there is definately ALWAYS room for improvement
yeahoriginal 1 year ago 2
@goodi2shooz Nah not really. My sister is extremely ill and has almost died multiple times from abscesses and has received treatment for each one. Without universal health-care she would most likely either be dead or our family would be in massive debt.
ColJ2 1 year ago
Brilliantly illustrated, as always.
katiekawaii 1 year ago
i can see a large increase in the sale of warner chilcott stocks as a result of this video...
JasaanKenneth 1 year ago
edit: 69 Galleon, 8 Sickles, 21 Knuts.
spackledorfed 1 year ago
I OWN WARNER CHILCOTT!
deltarrow 1 year ago
i love ur picture of woody guthrie in the background!
edisonphonographfan 1 year ago
This whole Chilcott thing is like Snape stopped making Remus' potion just for giggles.
SteveVader101 1 year ago 4
@SteveVader101 or suddenly decided to charge Remus 69 Galleons per cup. (That's $700 US Dollars according to the HP Lexicon USD to Galleons converter)
spackledorfed 1 year ago
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ChadOzzy101 1 year ago
if you think about it John and Hank Green have a lot in common with Thomas and Henrich Mann..... Think about it!
Wickedlyelectrik 1 year ago
i vote we each go purchase one of warner chilcott stock so that, as a whole, we can decide what fair and negotiable price to assign to hank's (and others) meds
Sandiedog11 1 year ago
Nice Speach but wrong.
In a free market we would get medecine for lower prices. But we are not free.
Why can the charge so much? Cause they have a patent.
Who enforces it? The State.
The same entity that should help you.
No State No Patent No high Prices Free Market.
And please dont insult my invisble hand! You see 3. world tried to get it for low, but your goverment, in the name of free market forbid it.
So yeah good luck not to die of a splinter!
MrElektrolyt 1 year ago
Going by the pitch of his voice, I think John was very excited throughout this video.
MyHallelujah 1 year ago 4
Super informative and thought-provoking!
popelauncher 1 year ago
I'm afraid the young man at How The World Works bested you in this debate. In a perfect world I would side with you, but we don't live in a perfect world...that's why you lose.
ImHappynBP 1 year ago
Call of Duty!
Stirfry0 1 year ago
U.S drug companies are some of the most profitable companies in the world. We are at their mercy and at the mercy of Wall St.
Drug companies spend only a small percentage of their earnings on research, they spend a lot more on advertising.
Maiyanna 1 year ago
there is a cure for malaria the people die from it just cant afford the $8 it takes to buy it
wobinga7 1 year ago
I'm still not convinced they "raised" the price overnight.
It sounds like he simply lost his discount rate and had to pay the cash price overnight.
hoppinglark 1 year ago
@hoppinglark that makes sense- but then why did the price jump to $600 if it had been $300 before? that's still double the price!
cherrygirl016 1 year ago
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hoppinglark 1 year ago
@cherrygirl016
yeah I'd like the details too.
hoppinglark 1 year ago
He bought 100 shares, not 100% of the shares... lol.
And by doing so, he forces his opinion on said company, because he owns part of said company.
You go, John. You go.
Also, finished Will Grayson, Will Grayson this morning. Let's ignore the fact that it took me this long and enjoy the point I'm trying to make, which is, it's right next to Looking For Alaska in my list of favorite books ever.
Let me say that again...
Ever.
jordanleighgriffin 1 year ago
I love it how you buy a company to prove a point!
gem042 1 year ago
I love the Yoshitomo Nara pictures you have on your wall. :)
LadyAerowyn 1 year ago
YOU SIR, HAVE SUCCESSFULLY TROLLED YOUR BROTHER.
ItsThatToolGuy 1 year ago
Woa John you are awesome! I hope you become more then 1/12millionth (or whatever) owner of that company so you can do something equally awesome with it. You're so right about them wanting money not curing their customers
davorunner 1 year ago
I had a dream about John and Hank two nights ago and I was married to Hank and John came to visit us but they weren't related. The funniest part of my dream was the fact that I wanted John to sign some of his books that I had and upon coming to mine and Hank's home, John promptly signed my books, insulted my husband, flipped us off and left.
...
I know, I know. My dreams are strange.
InTheEyesOfTheMoon 1 year ago
Wait, did john just spend 2.5 thousand dollars on stock for a company thats ruining his brothers life?
roadkill1110 1 year ago
Why is the drug so much cheaper in Canada? What is different about Canada's market? Please explain this in more detail!
saikogrrl 1 year ago
@saikogrrl canada has free health care. people pay higher taxes there so that they can get their drugs and other health stuff at a much lower price. that's what Obama-care was trying to do, but it didn't go over so well, which is why Hank has to pay $600 for a tiny bottle of pills.
chestercherry 1 year ago
@chestercherry So, you're saying that Obama's health care law directly caused the price of Hank's medicine to go up by 1200% over night?! I hope I'm not being too nosy when I ask, 'What planet are you from?'
corr14 1 year ago
@corr14 I think what chester was saying was that Obama's health care scheme might have made things more affordable or easier, but it didn't get fully approved, so meds are still expensive?
saikogrrl 1 year ago
@corr14 nonono. sorry, that's not what i'm saying AT ALL. I was trying to say was that Canadians pay a lot more on their taxes so that the government can help pay for their meds, and that's kind of what Obama's health care reform was trying to do. Hank's meds went up so high cuz he buys them from an organization whose goal is to make profits, and they do that by finding the cheapest way to make their product and then sell it for stupidly high prices. Sorry, i didn't articulate myself very well.
chestercherry 1 year ago 2
@chestercherry My fault. I reread your post and I understand what you were saying now. sorry! XD
corr14 1 year ago
@chestercherry that sounds awesome. We have something similar in Australia called medicare, which helps offset costs for people who can't afford private health insurance, with things like a low income card which sometimes means meds for like $9 which is fantastic.
What I wonder is, why can't all countries be like Canada? I wonder what it is about that country that allowed them to implement this scheme when it isn't working in America. something to do with an unregulated market like John said?
saikogrrl 1 year ago