America: where they sell you a dream and make you repay it or else it’s a crime
Like watching stages of denial play out.
Like half of the nation didn’t believe the joker and thought he was a good guy?
What country? They didn’t say the country!
What country? They didn’t say the country!
Such a mystery!
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.
Why did he end up being diagnosed after all?
That’s interesting, because I was diagnosed with hemochromatosis last year, and I go to the local blood donation center and bloodlet every 4 weeks. They don’t consider it a standard donation, but a therapeutic phlebotomy. But both my blood doctor and the donation center state that my blood is still used as if it were a donation, and I don’t pay anything.
I wonder why there’s a difference.
Different state laws probably
Can’t he just not tell them that he has it? At least in Germany that was generally the solution for gay people to donate blood: The only person who could potentially be liable would be the physician if they knew for a fact that you were lying. Which was very unlikely, considering that those red cross people rarely included the local GPs. (The legal situation might be different in other countries though, so check!)
“Such irony” 👈😏👈
The door is over there
Coincidentally I am being tested for hemochromatosis and here in France you can donate blood: https://dondesang.efs.sante.fr/articles/le-don-saignee
It looks like I will be a regular donor! Yay?
Non-American here, trying to understand.
Are these prices after insurance? If you have insurance through work, and you’ve paid a premium for “good” insurance (assuming you can do that for your family), are you still paying insane amounts for medicine and hospital care?
They’re saying that the insurance they have will not cover any of the cost of the other brand, so they have to pay full price. Many medicines are absurdly expensive here because the drug maker makes their money from insurance companies, not so much the people buying it. It’s absurd, stupid, and backwards.
If it’s covered under insurance then it’s $5-$30 (depending on policy) for a co-pay and that’s it. If it’s not covered under your policy then it’s eleventy bajillion dollars. The insurance will also pull stupid shit like not letting you pick up your refill early, or making you get some other medication that is similar, but not what your doctor prescribed. Of course the insurance company doesn’t pay eleventy bajillion dollars, they’ve negotiated it down to 50¢, but that’s what you’ll pay if you don’t have insurance.
Your upper range is way too low. I’ve had $75 copays before with shitty insurance.
Yeesh! How much were your premiums?
Like $1k a month just for me
Yes, after insurance prices. In this case it’s because their insurance provider told them that they will not cover any of the cost of the $1800 infusion because the one that is out of stock is already approved.
If you get one of the cheap plans (high deductible health plan, HDHP), you might pay $200 per month depending on how much of the premium your employer covers and then still have to pay $8,500 a year before your insurance provider will cover anything that isn’t considered preventative care buried in the fine print of the policy.
I went for an annual physical, standard check up and blood work, but my insurance decided the blood tests weren’t part of the physical and tried to bill me $700. Had to appeal it with the insurance company which took several phone calls over a month to get them to void the bill.
Reagan loved to talk about ‘deregulation’ when what he was really talking about was letting businesses steal from consumers.
Don’t forget he was also talking about letting companies dump toxic waste into our drinking water supply.
What do you think deregulating is outside of that?
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Ah, I was just lumping that into them stealing the livelihood of their community, but absolutely yes.
And then complaining that those customers are to blame that their business is tanking when in reality they just made them too poor to buy the product and/or killed them off but they will get a bailout anyway because they are “too big to fail”.
Killing people - speed and amount varie
The stealing of livelihood
The brainwashed thinks that if industry had less red tape, they’d be able to innovate more, let the market decide pay and hiring, and cost us less taxes in monitoring. All despite history proving that it only leads to the rich getting richer and more powerful while everyone else becomes peasants.
That’s why all Trump voters are just dumbfucks. Some of them think they’re the strong men that will get to take advantage of the weak in this system, but they’re really just dumb sheep that tongue a butthole up to middle management at best. They’re the ones who picked on special needs kids at school because punching down is easy and they need a win.
The brainwashed thinks that if industry had less red tape, they’d be able to innovate more, let the market decide pay and hiring, and cost us less taxes in monitoring. All despite history proving that it only leads to the rich
That happens in a small economy, without thoroughly entrenched trillion dollar companies. But eventually the most ruthless companies will kill all of the other companies, dominate everything, and operate with impunity. That’s where we are now.
Elon fucking Musk is getting a position created for him that’s going to be the kill the poor department and he is naming it after a meme.
What they don’t understand is how e.g. cutting jobs, or not providing necessary goods and services (e.g. enough bolts to keep something attached to the outside of an airplane? The lack of which causing said thing to fall off mid-flight), etc. is the very self-same “innovation” that they were promised. As in, it delivers stock dividends to the shareholders, thus functions as intended.
We arguably deserve what is coming for us. Though damn I wish there was some way to avoid the worst of it.
It’s not theft. It’s price gouging.
Oh it’s efficient alright. At filling billionaires’ pockets, that is
Fascism. That’s what.
Thought that was Willem Defoe for a hot second there
Profits before people
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.
At least Germany doesn’t require a visa for us citizens
Sadly the person who posted this is a sorta-famous ME/CFS patient who is completely bedridden. So they can’t even leave their room.
I wonder if a nurse could get it from that country and bring it back.
perhaps someone will ship it over
But can medications be shipped internationally?
My dude, why even say that? Take the conversation private. I assure you that anything can be shipped internationally if you try hard enough and don’t announce it to the world. Smh.
They are literally bedridden and poor, they obviously don’t want to risk doing anything illegal because them getting arrested is literally a death sentence, and police are well known not to give a shit about chronic illness/disability.
You’re right but maybe don’t hate on the desperate.
Your only option in America is to lick some steel-toed boots.
Execs typically don’t wear steel-toed boots.
So you’re suggesting we should kill execs and eat them like delicious donuts?
Have you tried dieing lol
“wtf is wrong with this country”
LOL buckle up
Strap
onin.Unfortunately, people like this likely won’t make it. So I have a hard time laughing about it.
it’s fucking gut-wrenching. i’ve been severely depressed since wednesday morning. what everyone needs to do now is stop asking what’s wrong with the country, and start asking how do i get out
No, they need to ask, “How do I fight back?” Become the resistance. That’s what I’m doing. I’ve been putting my fear and anger into exercising and getting stronger to fight for my country.
My co-worker damaged a piece of one of my tools on Wednesday. I was trying to fix it and I almost started to cry. Had to take a break. It’s a five dollar thing. It wasn’t about the tool.
