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That last one. You want people to stop taking illegal substances or getting addicted to pain killers? Give them free healthcare so they go talk to someone about who they are and why they can't cope.
ReplyDeleteFuck every Nazipublican on every level. I have never despised a group of people so much as I loathe them. Fuck them each and severally.
ReplyDeleteThe meme about the college "Stress" class was powerful. I support the idea of a national minimum income. Paid for by taxes (yes, they'll go up), and a reduction in social programs. But there is no such thing as "Free".
ReplyDeleteAcknowledging that is important. I think the price is worth it.
You know they all get big donations from the industries. How many of those Republicans have investments in pharma or some medical corporation?
ReplyDeleteIf I compare with my friends in USA (Delaware) who have many prescription meds I pay much less for the same meds here in Montreal, Canada (diabetes "Jardiance").
ReplyDeleteThey have to pay a private medicare insurances as I don't have to pay for such a coverage because since my retirement, I'm under the universal medicare of province of Québec.
Note that all my income taxes (federal & provincial) are 15% of my annual income.
Yes we pay taxes but we benefit of the universal healthcare system which I did profit in 2017 when I had a colon surgery for a cancer tunmor in my colon and was in the hospital for 4 days and paid « $0 » for all of it.
Cost of insulin in the USA being high? Of course, it's supposed to be higher as it's supposed to be the best. That orientation probably worked in the 1960s, but not now. By observation, sometimes "mediocre" can be just as good.
ReplyDeleteIt's kind of "funny" to know that Labs are able to produce and sell insuline units as low as :
ReplyDelete4,4€ in Poland
2,2€ in Turkey
Both countries not being known to be amongst the wealthiest, are they?
I can hear Big-Pharmas's salesmen trying to argue something like "We have to sell it at a higher price elsewhere in order to balance the money we loose in these countries..."
Since when do they sell anything anywhere at a loss? Never!
Since when do they care about the wellbeing of the poor? They only care about their personal benefits and their shareholders'.
More than a century ago, in 1921, Canadian researchers sold their discovery patent for just 1$ to the Toronto University. Their goal was for insuline to be affordably made available for all patients in need of it.
Nowadays, three labs are feeding themselves 99% of the U.S. insuline market. One of them being a French lab - Sanofi - which shames me, knowing how capped their prices are here in France whilst still allowing them to make benefits.
But let's not forget that the other blame goes to the successive U.S. mandates, Bothe Reps and Dems, which over the past decades "didn't have the balls" to put an end to that greed.
Universal healthcare works, there is no denying that.
Big-Pharma makes a fine living in countries where it applies. Ditto.
What need to be ended is the greed of those faces and arses lifted shareholders living in Florida or French Riviera.
Baby-boomers my ass!
Heard an interesting thing on NPR this morning.
ReplyDeleteDid you know with all the state and federal assistance/money in providing healthcare to the American people WE ARE already paying for Universal Health care for our citizens? In fact, the professor said Americans would SAVE money if we moved from one system for all.
If living in America is anguish, move!
ReplyDeleteFor all of its faults, we here in the UK are fortunate to have a free at point of source health care system the NHS, I cannot believe that there is a cost for insulin in the US for a life saving prescription!
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