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A Boring Dystopia
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So you got the platinum special. I got injected with some unknown disease and tagged for scientific research at a later date for $1,000 after insurance.
Same it ;was Gardasil the HPV vaccine given to me in my teens but NEVER told my mom I was a guinea pig and we were the first to test.
I got PSOS and my other friends either got that or endometriosis!
The American healthcare system is fucked! Never got any compensation or anything for it just a lifetime of health issues. Also, found out the drug I need is $500 a month and takes $3 to make! Fuck the pharmaceutical companies they’re just as bad as the government. They are basically legal drug cartel!!!
Now that's a whole differenr tier of fucked.
thats not even the half of it, some insurance put different drugs on tiers, generics are usually the cheapest one, then brand name of those generics. and then expensive generics, and specialty like biologic, cancer drugs,,,etc. drastically increase in cost. they can unilaterally not cover certain ones too.
like alot of drugs, topicals are made from INDIA manufactured there, but a 200$ wholesale cost for a 30g tube for a topical immunosuppresant that is GENERIC, with insurance its either no cost or a small copay. probably look for online coupons if your insurance wont cover it, and you need it.
OK wtf