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James Johnson
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| Posted: 19 December 2025 at 7:37pm | IP Logged | 1
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JB doesn't like for this forum to be too heavily 47 focused, but I want to toss this out here.
On the subject of prescription medication:
Can someone explain to me how can the American public save 200% on those drugs?
300%?
400%?
500%?
Am I going to be reimbursed the cost of the drug and then some?
Can a 47 supporter (or anyone for that matter) on this forum please make sense of this? 😕😕😕
Defend your fearless leader........
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Brian Miller
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| Posted: 19 December 2025 at 8:42pm | IP Logged | 2
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I ready to start being paid to take this handful every morning!
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Jim Lynch
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| Posted: 20 December 2025 at 1:01pm | IP Logged | 3
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Howard Lutnick has been out polishing this turd incessantly.Something like: if it costs $7 and it goes up to $14, it’s a 100% increase. So reducing it from 14 to 7 would be a 100% decrease. So, and I’m dumb as hell, but the idea that a medicine is being reduced 500% means it SHOULD cost $10 but it’s being sold for $5000? ( not that I doubt this actually taking place). But the math somehow stems from what the medicine SHOULD cost?
Show me an abacus that does that.
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Brian Miller
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| Posted: 20 December 2025 at 1:53pm | IP Logged | 4
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if it costs $7 and it goes up to $14, it’s a 100% increase. So reducing it from
14 to 7 would be a 100% decrease.
*******
No, that’s a 50% decrease. Is it wonder our economy is the way it is with
math like this?
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John Byrne
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Three quarters of a century puttering around on this planet, and I still don’t understand how percentages work.
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James Woodcock
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Unfortunately, you seem to be in good, or is that bad, company.
This whole percentages thing regarding drugs really is annoying me to know
end. If a kid answered like that in an exam question, they would receive a
fail.
But because the people they are appealing to seem incapable of stringing a
coherent though together, they get away with it.
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James Johnson
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| Posted: 20 December 2025 at 5:20pm | IP Logged | 7
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But because the people they are appealing to seem incapable of stringing a coherent though together, they get away with it.
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Hence the quote: "I LOVE THE UNEDUCATED VOTER!"
And he played on their stupidity......twice! Let's you know how easy it is to fool many Americans.
Edited by James Johnson on 20 December 2025 at 5:21pm
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John Byrne
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When I look at the headlines on news sites, I find myself wondering if anyone is being taught proper English anymore.
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Peter Martin
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So true. Even with former bastions of proper English like the BBC, I occasionally come across egregious mistakes.
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Vinny Valenti
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I “totally” hate when this word is used on supposedly reputable news site headlines now.
Edited by Vinny Valenti on 20 December 2025 at 8:25pm
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Jim Lynch
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I understand percentages… if it ends in 0. And I understand that Lutnick is shoveling horseshit, it’s just especially grating that a man with a degree in economics or whatever has to tie himself in such logical pretzels to support an argument by someone who is so obviously stupid, and we’re supposed to sit here and take it. Thank god the media doesn’t let him get away with it - oh, wait…
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