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Reminds me of a conversation I had with my doctor last month, and by doctor I mean the nurse practitioner at the clinic but then again I find them better anyway. She came up to me as I was paying on the way out and said I noticed you don't have insurance on your chart here. The prescription we put in for you is very expensive, even with insurance it could be hundreds of dollars without it we're talking over a thousand. So I told her just don't bother sending in the prescription cuz I couldn't do that at all. I mean if I paid for it I wouldn't make rent. So homelessness or this pill. She said what are you going to do? I said just fucking suffer I guess. Then we both just kind of walked away cuz nothing else to say.
Jesus fucking Christ.
I get the feeling this Jesus fellow would very much be against the idea of for-profit healthcare.
Curing lepers? Jesus would be barging into insurance company board meetings and cursing everyone there with leprosy.
More people need to be educated on how to order grey market pharmaceuticals. You can't find everything, but when you can, it's often best to bypass the US pharma system entirely. Unfortunately this isn't really viable for acute conditions, but for long-term medications you are doing yourself a disservice if you don't look into overseas pharmacies.
Just for people who don't know, several drug companies have major discounts or assistance programs for people who can't afford it. Is worth investigating if you're on a situation like this one. It's fucking stupid to live in this world, but we do.