I call bs... the utterly terrible customer experience is what lost them their customers. And constant changing of plans which became less and less effective... all of their 10$ a month customers don't suddenly have the budget to spend 1000$ a month on ozempic.
> ... the past two years have been a fun experiment in semi-free-market medicine. I don’t mean the patent violations - it’s no surprise that you can sell drugs cheap if you violate the patent - I mean everything else. For the past three years, ~2 million people have taken complex peptides provided direct-to-consumer by a less-regulated supply chain, with barely a fig leaf of medical oversight, and it went great. There were no more side effects than any other medication. People who wanted to lose weight lost weight. And patients had a more convenient time than if they’d had to wait for the official supply chain to meet demand, get a real doctor, spend thousands of dollars on doctors’ visits, apply for insurance coverage, and go to a pharmacy every few weeks to pick up their next prescription.
This comment feels disingenuous. Peptides were first synthesized in the 80s and we have been providing peptide drugs to diabetes patients since the 2000s. So this “experiment in semi-free-market medicine” in which “there have been no more side effects than any other medication” is built on the back of 20yrs of research + 20yrs of commercial use.
To me it seems like quoted comment is trying to make a case for the deregulation in healthcare. Which is 1) a slippery slope and 2) not supported by the example they provided. It’s just a whole lot of libertarian vaporware
ULEZ and similar scheme are not about vehicle size. They are about Euro-spec of the engine.
There is a very vocal opposition against those: big recent SUVs are compliant, but small old cars are not, which goes against how people perceive their respective emissions.
In general:
- any EV or hybrid is OK
- petrol cars are OK if they're not too old (depending on Euro rating of the engine, I also have a 22 yo compliant petrol car, though a car from the same year could be non-compliant if the engine has a lower Euro rating)
- diesel cars need to be recent (in general equipped with DPF and other emission-control equipment that's become mandatory to pass more recent Euro-specs)
Sure. Wouldn’t drive an enormous car. I live in the county, would struggle on the narrow lanes with one of those Chelsea tractors. Big cars are only needed in the city.
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A little unfair to compare a country 10x the size - I would imagine its a lot easier to run good public transport over a smaller area. That said, Germany does seem to have underinvested in infrastructure a lot in the Merkel era... hopefully something that is being remedied now. The transport network is still amazing overall by global standards, even if it is frustrating for daily commuters.
I think the underinvestment has been going on for much longer than that. It's just really been starting to show more and more throughout the last ten years or so.
I'm not very optimistic with it being remedied any time soon, either. For some reason politicians have been talking about it doesn't return a profit for over a decade now.
I don't know where this reasoning came from, but it's spreading to postal service as well. Suddenly public infrastructure needs to be profitable. Unless it's parking or roads of course.
This is actually the opposite. at 10X the size, we have 30x the commuters (it scales faster than population) and 30x the demand. All of these 'car' cities used to have great streetcar or subway networks, we tore them out when we decided cars are a religion / definition of who we are.
We have it easier as a large country, and we still do the dumbest short-term thinking thing.
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