2023 does not have to end being the year of overpriced tuberculosis tests. DanaherCorp can make it the time for five dollar tests for all.
For the last week, our community has been pressuring the large corporation Danaher to lower prices for TB tests. Danaher owns Cepheid, the company that makes GeneXpert Machines, which are absolutely wondrous: In an hour, they can tell you not just if you have tuberculosis, but also which treatment plan is most likely to cure you quickly. It’s life-saving technology.
Danaher mostly owns lab companies and the like, but strangely, they also own Pantone–the color-matching company? And so one way we’ve been trying to make the case to Danaher that it’s in their best interest to lower prices is through a campaign to name new Pantone colors of the year related to their parent company’s overcharging for TB tests.
And now that meme is mixing with OFMD memes, which is a wonder to behold.