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Because Ill people must be able to buy them ! If they are not able to, they'll die and you lose customers.
Ill people with long-term diseases who are able to pay for their drugs are cash cows.
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true that! 
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The price after National Insurance's subvention seems to be ~55 USD in Hungary, this is the price I should pay to buy it. Possibly some people can get it for free.
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10-20 € if not prescripted (aka: independently taken precautions), 1-2 € if prescripted.
That's what taxes are for and the biggest costs for our SSN come from organized crime (a normal siringe costs 1c, in southern Italy they account 5c... from the same company with the same selling price) and scams like fake cancer cures from Literature graduates. Still it's cheaper this way and all in all the Italian hospital system ain't as bad as we think compared to the rest of the world.
The real problem are the queues to access the SSN treatments and diagnosis - from 6 months to 2 years even for threatening situations. We have to thank all the 65+, as they have free access to the medical system and usually are hypocondriacs, and the extension to every clandestine immigrant of the SSN free of charge.
GCS d--- s-/++ a- C++++ U+++ P- L- E-- W++ N++ o+ K- w+++ O? M-- V? PS+ PE- Y+ PGP t++ 5? X R++ tv-- b+ DI+++ D++ G e++>+++ h--- ++>+++ y+++* Weapons extension: ma- k++ F+2 X
If you think 'goto' is evil, try writing an Assembly program without JMP. -- TNCaver
When I was six, there were no ones and zeroes - only zeroes. And not all of them worked. -- Ravi Bhavnani
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This is not surprising. I suppose you heard about this [^]also.
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I remember that. The news was calling the guy "The most hated person in America" and the little S**t's smug testimony to congress only made it worse.
if (Object.DividedByZero == true) { Universe.Implode(); }
Meus ratio ex fortis machina. Simplicitatis de formae ac munus. -Foothill, 2016
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Foothill wrote: Recently the news outlets here have been running stories on the increasing prices of life saving drugs, like the EpiPen[^].
Here in US they are charging $600 for a pack of two. I am curious to what the rest of the world pays for EpiPens.
Here[^] you go, an Australia article on it.
Michael Martin
Australia
"I controlled my laughter and simple said "No,I am very busy,so I can't write any code for you". The moment they heard this all the smiling face turned into a sad looking face and one of them farted. So I had to leave the place as soon as possible."
- Mr.Prakash One Fine Saturday. 24/04/2004
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The tone of that article makes me believe the rest of the world also has WTF!? feelings on this. Thanks.
if (Object.DividedByZero == true) { Universe.Implode(); }
Meus ratio ex fortis machina. Simplicitatis de formae ac munus. -Foothill, 2016
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Don't fall victim to knee-jerk opinion. This is a well researched overview of the whole EpiPen controversy. As usual, the issue is never as simple and black-and-white as people think...
Stonekettle Station[^]
Cheers,
Mike Fidler
"I intend to live forever - so far, so good." Steven Wright
"I almost had a psychic girlfriend but she left me before we met." Also Steven Wright
"I'm addicted to placebos. I could quit, but it wouldn't matter." Steven Wright yet again.
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That was an interesting, albiet a bit lengthy, article. I do agree with the author on several points. The thing that gets me is that we all know that congress is a problem. I can vote against the incumbents with every election but, until the other half of voters do too, we will keep sending the same ineffectual people to Washington DC.
if (Object.DividedByZero == true) { Universe.Implode(); }
Meus ratio ex fortis machina. Simplicitatis de formae ac munus. -Foothill, 2016
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Agreed. And gerrymandering and voter suppression and unrestricted donations and lobbyists, ...ad nauseam, all work to slow, if not prevent, progress.
That being said, it's never an excuse to not vote.
Cheers,
Mike Fidler
"I intend to live forever - so far, so good." Steven Wright
"I almost had a psychic girlfriend but she left me before we met." Also Steven Wright
"I'm addicted to placebos. I could quit, but it wouldn't matter." Steven Wright yet again.
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We deal with a lot of text on CodeProject and it can be a major PITA. Beyond that we also deal with general HTML related issues such as parsing content and dealing with URLs.
@florianrappl descended from the Mount and gave us AngleSharp[^] and for that I owe him a beer. The best HTML/CSS parsing and, frankly, the best URL parser I've yet seen.
![Beer | [beer]](https://codeproject.freetls.fastly.net/script/Forums/Images/beer.gif)
cheers
Chris Maunder
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Just how big is your DB now?
It must be a nightmare just to manage the backups...
My apologies - I replied to the wrong post... 
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
modified 24-Aug-16 14:26pm.
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Just how big is your DB now?
It must be a nightmare just to manage the backups...
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
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Backups? What are those? 
"These people looked deep within my soul and assigned me a number based on the order in which I joined."
- Homer
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Disaster recovery only needs to be thought about when there's a disaster, amirite?
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They're a bunch of useless data tapes and never used servers sitting in racks that IT Dorks will waste money on if they're not kept on a tight by the Godly Bean Counters<Insert halo and angelic chorus sound effects here>.
Did you ever see history portrayed as an old man with a wise brow and pulseless heart, waging all things in the balance of reason?
Is not rather the genius of history like an eternal, imploring maiden, full of fire, with a burning heart and flaming soul, humanly warm and humanly beautiful?
--Zachris Topelius
Training a telescope on one’s own belly button will only reveal lint. You like that? You go right on staring at it. I prefer looking at galaxies.
-- Sarah Hoyt
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Depends which one, but all up no more than 2TB data.
Most of that is made up of bad puns.
cheers
Chris Maunder
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Chris Maunder wrote: Most of that is made up of bad puns.
Ah. I didn't realise I posted that much...
Given the activity level of the site, that's less than I thought. Still a lot of data to manage - means there's some good software processing it given the site's general response times. 
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
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If you just look at user content - forum posts, QA posts/comments, article text, article images/zips, which individual member takes up most space in your database? 
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That's be like answering the question "am I fat?". I'm not going to publicly shame the person.
cheers
Chris Maunder
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I think it'll be a matter of pride. In the same league as "who can burp loudest"
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AngleSharp is Awesome. Period. No other library can even come close.
What do you get when you cross a joke with a rhetorical question?
The metaphorical solid rear-end expulsions have impacted the metaphorical motorized bladed rotating air movement mechanism.
Do questions with multiple question marks annoy you???
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