Hey my once daily inhaler I use every day of the week was only $326.60 this month. Neato.
Three hundred and twenty six dollars every fucking month. And sixty fucking cents. WITH INSURANCE. It’s six hundred fucking dollars without insurance!
Healthcare is a fuck.
Saint Luigi protect us.
: “heheheheh! Healthcare is a luxury, and even if you do pay, it’s MY business so I don’t have to help you if I don’t want to kiddo! It’s called freedom!”
: “Ok, so I guess I will never buy health insurance if it will make no difference.”
: “Buh….buh….YA GOTTA! NOT GIVING ME MONEY FOR NO REASON IS A CRIME!1!1!”The point of health insurance is to extract wealth from proletarian necessity. They are a leech. Their only balance is to make themselves better than nothing, but not through cost cutting, but monopoly.
We are all drained by them. But they hurt the least wealthy most. I’m sorry you have to deal with them through s disability.
The point of it is to provide the cheapest service possible for the highest price they can get array with.
It’s a business, what other point could there possibly be?
To protect corporations from legal liability.
The point of health insurance? Your money or your life. Often both.
Any violence against healthcare entities is self-defense.
Excuse me what the fuck.
The hospital and drug companies are also fucking with you. Inhalers here for cost that much.
$31.50 AUD for a non concession card holder and that’s seen as expensive
Love to pay 10x the cost for something, and not even factoring in the AUD - USD conversion rates. That’s something like $20 here.
what the actual
Fucked thing is if you were here as a tourist it’s only 80 AUD on non pbs script
Would literally be cheaper to fly to Australia to buy a few months supply.
I feel like I’m going to have a major incident and die, with the last thing I ever do is frantically try and figure out which hospital is in network so I can get an Uber there (ambulances are expensive) as I black out
Emergency rooms are all equally as expensive. I don’t think there are “networks” for ERs specifically.
just checked a pharmacy website in Colombia, that exact stuff, name brand, is $72 for a 30 dose inhaler
unlimited luigis on the Amerikkkan “health care system”
Jesus fucking christ
Just checked. Completely free on the NHS. Fuck Amerikkka.
The NHS pays £44.50 per inhaler according to this document: https://nhssomerset.nhs.uk/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/Revised-inhaler-guide-v14.pdf
I was gonna say, most prescriptions are £9 a pop, but that can contain multiple inhalers, and there are a bunch of ways to get free prescriptions, so one way or another we’re paying a fraction of the price.
Amerikkkan healthcare is depraved.
that’s still pretty prohibitive by local standards so doctors would probably prescribe a cheaper cocktail of inhalers with the individual drug components. realistically people would get it through the official pharmacy of the HMO-equivalent they’re signed up with (everyone is, in theory, registered to one) and it would be a couple bucks in copay. but as an unaffiliated tourist you could get it for that private pharmacy price, delivered right to your hotel.
wtf. Unbelievable
well yes the Dr who ordered it for you says it’s needed but our team of people know better than any Dr what will work (simply based on our vibe when selecting formularies this year totally not what kick backs we get) so it’s either pay completely out of pocket or not get better. Aren’t you glad we don’t have government death panels just insurance ones!
When my son was born I immediately got him added to my insurance plan. Somehow his name had a typo (not on my end, I had to send in a PDF file and triple checked it, still have the email that I sent in). I called the insurance company to let them know and they basically said oops we’ll fix it, so they readded him as a dependent and we got a new card for him when he was about 3 months old ( it took them like 2 months to fix it)
The issue here is that he now had a different member ID number, and Jerry Smith wasn’t covered by insurance up until those 3 month, only Jerrry Smithe was, and my son isn’t Jerrry Smithe, so everything that got submitted to insurance up until we got his new card wasn’t covered by insurance, doesn’t go towards our deductible or out of pocket maximum and is fully on us to pay. His 1 month vaccines alone were fucking $17k, how, why, maybe the antivaxxers are onto something? Those microchips must be expensive.
I’m fighting it, but Jesus Christ the run around is a god damn marathon. We’re almost $50k in the hole here and the customer support just keeps saying “Jerry Smith wasn’t covered under your plan at that time”.
It feels like how sales people do price conditioning at a certain point
I’ve been thoroughly conditioned. I used to get excited that it was only 100 a month.
sorry you failed to meet your 5000 deductible you only spent 4985.36 out of pocket but it doesn’t matter since it will reset at the end of the month then you can try again and if you meet it then we will cover 25% of in network expenses (except copays) out of network is of course still not covered, until you hit your out of pocket max of 17k for individuals up until the plan limit of 20k at which point your secondary will have to kick in also this is the most efficient system it’s all quite simple really“Coinsurance” is such a racket. Just when you’ve finally met your deductible and expect your insurance to cover the rest you find out you’re now in the coinsurance zone so you’ve still gotta pay 20-40% of the inflated billing.
The people that dream up these kinds of things deserve to get thrown into volcanoes
That’s a good deal!
Death to Amerikkka death to for-profit healthcare, death to JK Rowling and insurance companies and may we have a million Luigis bloom and also fuck the Amerikkkan empire and fuck all the troops and fuck anyone who says “i can help you medically for a price” and fuck every single cop ever
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