Even if we weren't talking about a life-saving drug that is basically free in any other country, a coupon that saves you 70% is pretty bullshit.Nah turns out pets can use human insulin. What's fucked is I had to dig around for the coupon that gets me it for 100 bucks a bottle. Otherwise it's like 350. Straight up. Nobody tells you shit and I found for myself that the manufacturer offers a coupon
Another reminder that healthcare and doctors don't exist in the US (no real doctor would be okay with that "system").
Good to know you like the idea of people dying because they can't afford to pay for what is a human right!
Coupons.
Special offers on lifesaving drugs seems like a full on Sci-Fi dystopia
DittoAs a type one diabetic myself, thank God I don't live in the US...
Good to know you like the idea of people dying because they can't afford to pay for what is a human right!
There's a great piece on drug prices in the US with a large section on insulin I'd recommend here:
Coupons.
Special offers on lifesaving drugs seems like a full on Sci-Fi dystopia
Even if we weren't talking about a life-saving drug that is basically free in any other country, a coupon that saves you 70% is pretty bullshit.
twitter.com/accidentallyleftwingBut housing is a human right, clothing, food. Electricity, internet. The list goes on.
Just saw this....WTF the US health system is a joke...thank god for the NHS
America is a joke of a country, don't know how Americans put up with that bs
Not surprising; sounds like America.
Honestly, I don't think anything short of revolution will fix America's problems.
Same, but I guess there can only be so many Daily Show-likes, especially from Daily Show alumni.
America is a joke of a country, don't know how Americans put up with that bs
Actually, a large swathe of the US is pretty much indistinguishable from a 3rd world country.I live in a country with universal healthcare that I support, and think the US should have too. Some f the posts here are a bit extreme saying the US is some failed developing country. Has anyone saying that spent any time in an actual undeveloped nation?
And as someone who knows the industry a bit it's more an issue with people not having insurance than drug prices. These high prices are never actually payed by the insurance companies, hospital, or government systems, they are used as the beginning price negotiations. A large government system can bring the prices down as they have a lot of bargaining power. So even just having that as an option is good, you don't even need to get rid of private insurance to improve the system.
Also while I'm not agains these discussions but is this, the gaming forum section, really the best place to discuss this?
This is simply criminal. Health and Education should never be a business.
So, like what if someone can't afford it? They just have to die or what? How does that work?
As a type one diabetic myself, thank God I don't live in the US...
Have you actually got any evidence for this claim? The poorest US state, Mississippi, has a GDP per capita of $31K, compared to somewhere like Bangladesh which is $2.1k. Mississippi has a higher GDP per capita than Spain or Italy.Actually, a large swathe of the US is pretty much indistinguishable from a 3rd world country.
It's more of the fact that the US is lacking things other 1st world countries have and use, even though we should are equal or better than them GDP wise.Have you actually got any evidence for this claim? The poorest US state, Mississippi, has a GDP per capita of $31K, compared to somewhere like Bangladesh which is $2.1k. Mississippi has a higher GDP per capita than Spain or Italy.
Doesn't "seem" like it. It literally actually is.Coupons.
Special offers on lifesaving drugs seems like a full on Sci-Fi dystopia
Then you don't get insulin. Thats what makes this so fucking unbeleviable
Because since the 2016 US election everywhere online seems to be used to push peoples political ideology.Shouldn't this be in EtcetEra? It's more about the cost of Isulin then the Xbox itself.
Outside of healthcare, which I agree about (but it's still no where near as bad as an actual developing nations), what else? Many in the US seems to have a distorted view of other developed nations.It's more of the fact that the US is lacking things other 1st world countries have and use, even though we should are equal or better than them GDP wise.
The point I was trying to make (not very elegant), was that if you bring up the fact that healthcare is a human right, then people throw on 1000 other things which could be considered a human right. That's why I steer away from that argument, and instead focus on the insanity of the american healthcare system as it currently is.