Good job, now let’s include bronchial dilators and help those paying $400 plus a month with the right to breathe.
Edit: I work in a pharmacy and never see anyone pay more than $100 for a months supply of narcotics or any controlled drugs (C2 - C5), but I consistently see people pay hundreds for drugs that are literally life or death. Please explain to me, like a 5 year old, how this has passed educated law makers.
Edit #2: I’m tipsy, and my previous edit was rhetorical. I apologize
Amatuers ........ The tax on breathing was supposedly in force in Byzantium, but in contemporary Poland it also happens that we pay for air. Climate tax is one of the Polish inventions. It is mainly collected by cities and communes that live on tourism. For the use of mountain air in Zakopane or sea air in Władysławowo, you have to pay a stay fee added to the price of renting a room in hotels and guest houses.
The maximum rate is currently PLN 4.32 per night in a city with the status of a health resort, PLN 3.13 in towns with the status of a spa protection area, and PLN 2.20 in other towns. Most municipalities usually set a maximum level or close to the maximum level.
And so, a two-week holiday in the Świnoujście health resort for a family of four costs over PLN 240. Well, the air by the sea is very expensive ...
People with money told the people who vote on bills / laws they will give them money to make the bills /laws allow them to keep being bad people and over pricing life or death medicine. No choice but to buy so they will always make money.
So the short answer. People who make bills and laws care more about money and bribes then their fellow humans.
Well I've had enough! I'm going to become a politician and change things from the inside! I just need a ridiculous amount of money to start my campaign. I promise I'll help out whoever helps my campaign. Any homeless, sick, poor, or minorities that throw me a few million will be the first that I help. Oh right, the system is absolutely fucked.
Seriously, I don't get this. I use oxycodone. I pay $5 a month. The Botox injections that might help my pain? Prior authorization required. The new biological that helps my pain? Prior authorization required, and they deny it due to being on Botox. Physical therapy? 12 visit a year limit. Massage therapy? F you. Not covered at all. And I have good insurance! My insulin is free at least.
It's okay that you're tipsy, you make good points. You'd think the life saving drugs would be the ones with a $1 co-pay or free and the narcotics be the expensive ones.
Or we could make all of them affordable—as someone who takes adderall to function, I would like to not be punished for having the brain I have. However, the fact that insulin and other life saving meds like Epipens aren’t free is a human rights violation. And honestly, most people are one accident or random illness away from having a disability, so we should all be fighting for affordable healthcare
I completely agree with every point you said. I spend close to $500/mo on insulin and diabetic supplies, and this is in Canada I couldn't imagine how much it would cost to live there. I unfortunately cannot afford a drug plan because the ones that will accept me without underwriting won't let me use said drug plan until the 1st day of the 4th month. I cannot afford the $500/mo nevermind adding more on top of it
It's not the insulin. I'm spending about $75 a month on insulin. The costs are the Needles and test strips. I'm using 10+ strips a day and 4+ needles. Each strip is $0.92 and each needle is about $0.4 or about $11 a day on supplies + ~$2.5 a day on insulin.
you see Timmy, the people who make money selling life-saving medicine at very expensive money, give some of that money to the people who make the laws that allow them to sell it for very expensive prices.
I work in a pharmacy too. It baffles me that narcotics/opioids/etc are so cheap when my patients can't even get their inhalers, insulin or epipens for less then $200. It hurts to see.
Ugh… so, some people have chronic pain that they could quite possibly die from. People may need different meds to survive… We need to stop pinning everything against everything else.
I can’t stand this crap.
Uh huh. Tell that to a chronic pain sufferer.
It’s the tone of the post. It’s shaming people that have a need for narcotics or controls. It’s annoying, and it’s a high horse mentality.
Well, MY disease is more lethal than yours.
Healthcare has to be affordable for everyone… save the pissing contests for whose beer is better, for crying out loud! 🤣
Cool, I'll tell that to my parent with chronic pain AND severe asthma. He definitely would prefer his inhaler to be cheap than his pain meds. Obviously, both would be ideal, but if he were to I vest time and effort into legislation, asthma meds come first for him.
Cool, as a parent that suffers from MS and asthma… I don’t give a shit in what order my ailments are in comparison to anyone else’s. All should be treated equal.
Mostly because you are reading the spin on reddit.
Insulin is extremely cheap in the US. When they say "insulin" they mean one of the brand new specific formulations that are designed to absorb slower, or last longer or any number of other special effects that make it more convenient to administer for the patient.
The 1980s insulin vials you inject into your stomach with a little needle is available for anyone for extremely low cost in America. They want the new stuff, the innovations, immediately, for cheap as well.
Most EU countries don't even offer these new diabetes treatments at all yet, which is why you don't understand. It's just not even available for you as an option.
Cost of an annual supply of intermediate acting 100ml Novalin vials for an uninsured person paying straight cash unsubsidized is around $1250. Per year.
These people quoting $700+ a month costs are lying. They are picking the most expensive, most recent brand name formulations and acting like they should just be free immediately after being invented.
All that will do is prevent any improvements in diabetes treatment from ever being invented again.
Well you see, when a mommy lawmaker and a daddy lobby love each other very much, the daddy lobby invites mommy lawmaker over for drinks. If they like each other a lot then mommy lawmaker goes in bed with daddy lobby who pounds the right law drafts into mommy lawmaker and then finishes by giving mommy lawmaker a vigorous cash injection.
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u/ghostpepperlover Oct 12 '21 edited Oct 12 '21
Good job, now let’s include bronchial dilators and help those paying $400 plus a month with the right to breathe.
Edit: I work in a pharmacy and never see anyone pay more than $100 for a months supply of narcotics or any controlled drugs (C2 - C5), but I consistently see people pay hundreds for drugs that are literally life or death. Please explain to me, like a 5 year old, how this has passed educated law makers.
Edit #2: I’m tipsy, and my previous edit was rhetorical. I apologize