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Post by sayhey24 on Jul 28, 2017 19:12:27 GMT -5
What I would do is have a couple hundred demo boxes sent to Blumenthal and Murphy along with Elizabeth Esty. MNKD told the City of Danbury that when afrezza was up and going they would bring 4500 jobs to Danbury. I would slap some big "Made in America" stickers on those boxes and have then bring some to the White House. Get them to do a Medicare/Medicaid deal and buy $200M of afrezza and cut Novalog off all U.S. funded medical. Come on Mike... Sayhey is lining you up with all sorts of $200M sales opportunities. We'll all be disappointed in you if you can't follow through after Sayhey has done the heavy lifting of dreaming up the opportunity. Sayhey, how long should we give Mike to totally change the way Medicare and Medicaid work? I'm thinking at least a month. He's a superstar not a superhero. How long does it take to write a one paragraph executive order? I hear Trump has a pen and Josh knows Jared. A made in America life saving product which will save $Millions to the taxpayers on special insulin pricing while bringing 4500 jobs to Danbury? I would say a 1 hour meeting in the Oval office will do it. Man, thats headline news and everyone wins. Can you imagine 3 Connecticut Democrats doing the deal with Trump. Who knows maybe even cry-baby Schumer would get behind this one. www.cnn.com/videos/politics/2017/01/29/chuck-schumer-emotional-trump-travel-ban-new.wcbs
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Post by peppy on Jul 28, 2017 19:30:48 GMT -5
Come on Mike... Sayhey is lining you up with all sorts of $200M sales opportunities. We'll all be disappointed in you if you can't follow through after Sayhey has done the heavy lifting of dreaming up the opportunity. Sayhey, how long should we give Mike to totally change the way Medicare and Medicaid work? I'm thinking at least a month. He's a superstar not a superhero. How long does it take to write a one paragraph executive order? I hear Trump has a pen and Josh knows Jared. A made in America life saving product which will save $Millions to the taxpayers on special insulin pricing while bringing 4500 jobs to Danbury? I would say a 1 hour meeting in the Oval office will do it. Man, thats headline news and everyone wins. Can you imagine 3 Connecticut Democrats doing the deal with Trump. Who knows maybe even cry-baby Schumer would get behind this one. www.cnn.com/videos/politics/2017/01/29/chuck-schumer-emotional-trump-travel-ban-new.wcbsI am wondering what drug could make you believe any of this? It looks interesting except it causes delusion? Are you having fun?
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Post by dreamboatcruise on Jul 28, 2017 19:32:12 GMT -5
Come on Mike... Sayhey is lining you up with all sorts of $200M sales opportunities. We'll all be disappointed in you if you can't follow through after Sayhey has done the heavy lifting of dreaming up the opportunity. Sayhey, how long should we give Mike to totally change the way Medicare and Medicaid work? I'm thinking at least a month. He's a superstar not a superhero. How long does it take to write a one paragraph executive order? I hear Trump has a pen and Josh knows Jared. A made in America life saving product which will save $Millions to the taxpayers on special insulin pricing while bringing 4500 jobs to Danbury? I would say a 1 hour meeting in the Oval office will do it. Man, thats headline news and everyone wins. Can you imagine 3 Connecticut Democrats doing the deal with Trump. Who knows maybe even cry-baby Schumer would get behind this one. www.cnn.com/videos/politics/2017/01/29/chuck-schumer-emotional-trump-travel-ban-new.wcbsSounds like you're sure that's a slam dunk. How long do you want to give Mike to get an executive order before you downgrade his superstar status to mere mortal CEO? A week or two?
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Post by sayhey24 on Jul 28, 2017 19:37:22 GMT -5
If you were worried about funding it should have been before ADA 2017. At this point afrezza is living "rent free" in the head of every Big Pharma president who wants to stay in the diabetes space. Nothing is faster and safer to treat meal time BG spikes. These guys make drugs and they know the techs will eat their lunch trying to get into the cloud monitoring space. Here is an oldie but goody on Google and Oscar Health the brainchild of Joshua Kushner, yes Jared's brother. www.healthline.com/diabetesmine/oscar-health-fantasy-league-health-insurance#3Recent news on Oscar and Cleveland clinic www.mobihealthnews.com/content/cleveland-clinic-and-oscar-health-team-offer-co-branded-health-insuranceAt the same time the Clevland Clinic has been prescribing afrezza from the beginning. Here is some info on afrezza and the clinic. health.clevelandclinic.org/2015/10/insulin-inhaler-new-option-diabetes/ Now if I were Jeff Dachis I would be calling Josh and trying to work a deal. Thats what I would do after lunch. Both Oscar and One Drop want to get into the concierge service and what better way to deliver it than through Amazon prime. Monthly insurance premium which covers monitoring; doctors and afrezza. Stay in range the price goes down. Slack off and you pay a higher premium. Give me some metformin, NOT. I want that little blue cartridge. Say hey, I hear you. However, I do not think the Cleveland clinic has been prescribing afrezza from the beginning. Was it althea, that went there and was turned down? Additionally, I recognize the article. A whole thread on it. The article had a different picture initially, and it was not the dreamboat. Upon our emails, Cleveland Clinic changed the picture.
Peppy - I never have personally gone to the Clinic but back in April 2015 Laurie333 said she was going to get her afrezza. I have no reason not to believe her and that was only a few months from product launch www.tudiabetes.org/forum/t/i-started-on-afrezza-last-night/23316/200
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Post by peppy on Jul 28, 2017 19:40:08 GMT -5
Say hey, I hear you. However, I do not think the Cleveland clinic has been prescribing afrezza from the beginning. Was it althea, that went there and was turned down? Additionally, I recognize the article. A whole thread on it. The article had a different picture initially, and it was not the dreamboat. Upon our emails, Cleveland Clinic changed the picture.
Peppy - I never have personally gone to the Clinic but back in April 2015 Laurie333 said she was going to get her afrezza. I have no reason not to believe her and that was only a few months from product launch www.tudiabetes.org/forum/t/i-started-on-afrezza-last-night/23316/200good to know sayhey. I had been left with a different impression. I am glad someone at the Cleveland clinic has prescribed Afrezza.
Here is the old thread; mnkd.proboards.com/thread/3719/insulin-inhaler-new-option-diabetes?page=1
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Post by letitride on Jul 28, 2017 19:54:42 GMT -5
Afrezza Live Free or Die! Thanks Senator Jean Shaheen
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Post by letitride on Jul 28, 2017 19:59:43 GMT -5
There was a Endo working out of Cleveland Clinic in Weston Fl prescribing back when SNY had control
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Post by tigiron on Jul 28, 2017 20:58:23 GMT -5
Is it legal to use the video clip/excerpt in ad campaign? It would have much more persuasive power/credibility if mnkd can incorporate this in their sales pitch, right?
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Post by nylefty on Jul 28, 2017 21:22:23 GMT -5
Is it legal to use the video clip/excerpt in ad campaign? It would have much more persuasive power/credibility if mnkd can incorporate this in their sales pitch, right? They couldn't use a clip of him talking about his experience with Afrezza. FDA doesn't allow anecdotes about prescription drugs in commercials.
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Post by lakon on Jul 28, 2017 22:07:50 GMT -5
I actually like the idea of using inhalers with dummy cartridges when marketing to masses at various events. I was at JDRF event last year and there were individual inhalers on the table but when I asked for one I was told they are for display only. I think that distributing the inhalers to people that are interested in Afrezza will go a long way and increase awareness greatly (seeing or holding the actual inhaler / cartridge is better than 1000 words)... Maybe this is already happening... Does anybody know if Mannkind is giving out promotional inhalers at their events? I have not heard that they are, but it's a great idea.( Every shareholder should have one in their pocket just like Al did:-) They should have given you one. Here's my idea. Instead of throwing away a used one, wash it, mark it used for demo only, and mail it to a friend with a message to get your own bro! I was thinking of setting up a site for recycling dreamboats that could be a re-mailer service too... BTW, I'd pay for mine, at least a few bucks for shipping me a box of 'em. I thought about having the site donate all funds to diabetes research, such as to MNKD, since they are doing the most as far as I can tell...
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Post by lakon on Jul 28, 2017 22:16:00 GMT -5
Great news! I like how Sparks highlights the use of "both" a CGM and Afrezza to achieve maximum, focused, just-in-time control ... versus some insulin pump, artificial pancreas. It seems to me that a CGM medical device manufacturer could improve sales if they collaborated with MNKD ...maybe even throw in 3 months of free Afrezza via some voucher program. I can't imagine a better match (like peas and carrots) for diabetes treatment than real-time, continuous monitoring plus "convenient", rapid acting, safe treatment that avoids all those nasty disadvantages of an insulin pump. If only the cost of CGM's could come down faster... I don't think we can expect much help from the insurance industry. Cyn, I agree with you. What I have seen happen, per twitter and instagram: The Afrezza user with the continuous glucose monitor (CGM) learns well how to use afrezza to control blood glucose. Then over time, I see a post, the afrezza user is taking a break from the CGM. It seems the fast acting insulin user learns afrezza so well, they no longer need a CGM. Exactly what Al predicted. That's the real fear in the CGM, pump, AP, and pharma space. This stuff, Afrezza?, is just TOO GOOD... Eventually, the innovator kills the other markets. If we can hold steady on pricing, we take the cake and eat it too!
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Post by lakon on Jul 28, 2017 22:22:56 GMT -5
Great story! Unfortunately, Trump wants to make huge cuts to medical research funding. MannKind wasn't going to get any cash anyways, but it's a bad sign and shortsighted. Our University's have always been a source and incubator of innovation... that eventually leads to job growth. Hopefully philanthropists step up and fill in the gap. Listen to Al Mann's talk at Johns Hopkins. Universities have always been a great source of new ideas, but not so much at incubating innovation. Most of it dies on the vines. That was the point of Al's philanthropic academic ventures. He was setting up incubators at universities so that inventors and researchers could get beyond R&D and develop businesses to sustain their efforts. Frankly, I've seen the same kind of problems at large corporations doing R&D. Lots of great stuff dies due to poor leadership and management as well as ever changing priorities and funding.
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Post by lakon on Jul 28, 2017 22:32:58 GMT -5
How long does it take to write a one paragraph executive order? I hear Trump has a pen and Josh knows Jared. A made in America life saving product which will save $Millions to the taxpayers on special insulin pricing while bringing 4500 jobs to Danbury? I would say a 1 hour meeting in the Oval office will do it. Man, thats headline news and everyone wins. Can you imagine 3 Connecticut Democrats doing the deal with Trump. Who knows maybe even cry-baby Schumer would get behind this one. www.cnn.com/videos/politics/2017/01/29/chuck-schumer-emotional-trump-travel-ban-new.wcbs I am wondering what drug could make you believe any of this? It looks interesting except it causes delusion? Are you having fun?
Here's something fun to think about. Perhaps another angle would be a letter to discuss with Trump how difficult the FDA has been under the last administration. One thing Trump is good at saying, "You're fired!" Everybody knows it. Having the FDA squared away would be useful. Apparently, FDA never got the memo to "watch your step, comrade" when dealing with Al. Maybe Michael C. can make them an offer they cannot refuse...
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Post by sportsrancho on Jul 29, 2017 6:20:19 GMT -5
I don't bite on any mnkd click bait if that what you mean... gee wiz. Sorry:-( That wasn't meant to be a snarky question. I just saw on SA that risingskeptic was infering that he was. And wondered if you'd seen the same thing. Him and flagship are after us all on Twitter. Anytime they see something that puts the fear if god in them about Afrezza they start infering we are all paid by MNKD.
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Post by straightly on Jul 29, 2017 16:43:44 GMT -5
I actually like the idea of using inhalers with dummy cartridges when marketing to masses at various events. I was at JDRF event last year and there were individual inhalers on the table but when I asked for one I was told they are for display only. I think that distributing the inhalers to people that are interested in Afrezza will go a long way and increase awareness greatly (seeing or holding the actual inhaler / cartridge is better than 1000 words)... Maybe this is already happening... Does anybody know if Mannkind is giving out promotional inhalers at their events? I have not heard that they are, but it's a great idea.( Every shareholder should have one in their pocket just like Al did:-) They should have given you one. If MNKD is reading, why not make some available at the quarterly meeting for investors? Somebody on this going there can help distributing them to thses of us not there?
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