Profits before people
Meanwhile, my brothers-in-law have hemochromatosis so need to be bled regularly to reduce the iron in their blood, and they have to pay for the privilege. One put off getting the diagnosis as long as he could because as long as it wasn't official, he could donate blood and achieve the same effect, but once diagnosed, he can't donate blood anymore- not that there's anything wrong with it, but to be classified a donation, the donor can't benefit from it in any way. Such irony. America, fuck yeah.
So I looked up the account on the screenshot and fell into a huge rabbit hole.
The TL;DR is that the poster has a rare syndrome that makes it so his body simply doesn't have energy to perform most tasks, and it progressed to a point where merely interacting with other people causes his brain to use too much "energy" and makes him crash.My TL;DR is a gross oversimplification of his story and doesn't do it any justice. When you have the time, please read what he has to say, it's eye opening: My Story by Whitney Dafoe
I felt so defeated when I went to pick up some medication last night which was $100 instead of $60 which it had been the previous month. I asked if there were any coupons available and the pharmacist said that was AFTER the coupon price. $100 for 15 pills.
I've been paying out of pocket for this med for years since my insurance company determined I had reached the "lifetime benefit limit" for that drug. I submitted an appeal earlier this year and was shut down. I've talked to my doctor about alternative drugs, and he said pretty much all the rest have significant side effects.
And after this week's elections, I'm sure it's only going to get worse over the next four (or more) years.
inb4 Mexican cartels start selling Mexican insulin and other medicine to broke Americans at lower prices.
Psychopaths control important things and leverage them for money and power and influence so they can get away with being psychopaths without going to prison.
The US, by withholding any medical treatments and assistentance is actually on big eugenic experiment
Deregulation doesn't means less rules to benefit the people. It means less of the rules which keep the rich and corporations in check. The less rules, the more free they are to exploit the people.
Republican “Death Panels”
But it’s ok because they’re profitable.
Oh it's efficient alright. At filling billionaires' pockets, that is
There's nothing wrong, it's working as intended. It's just not intended to work for YOU.
Like watching stages of denial play out.
Like half of the nation didn't believe the joker and thought he was a good guy?
it's efficiency for corporation to exploit the poor. when people like elon promotes deregulation = efficiency, they just leave the latter part on purpose.
If the prices of meds were that low, then our taxes wouldn't go towards manufacturing missiles to supply to other countries to kill people.
People are so selfish. /s
America: where they sell you a dream and make you repay it or else it's a crime
Fuckingcapitalists
Fascism. That's what.
"IP" is completely regulated otherwise people could sell for less.
What isn't wrong at this point?
Thought that was Willem Defoe for a hot second there
Welcome to corporate America. This country cares about corporations, not people or labor.
Simple. You need it to live and will pay the cost.
And iron infusions are not fun to begin with.
