At least Germany doesn’t require a visa for us citizens
Only for 90 days
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.
inb4 Mexican cartels start selling Mexican insulin and other medicine to broke Americans at lower prices.
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?
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.
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
WAT! Did you buy that policy at the toilet store?
The point is your money goes into billionaire’s pocket.
Like watching stages of denial play out.
Like half of the nation didn’t believe the joker and thought he was a good guy?
This post doesn’t mention the country they’re in. But then, it doesn’t really need to.
Wild guess: Is it that country where they just voted to make these issues worse?
A president comes to make the issue better, then they choose one that destroys all progress
A story as old as time.
But my eggs are more expensive >:(
You mean fatal?
The previous trump presidency caused well over million to needlessly die, I’m just wondering how many will die this time…
Ah yes, the default country
If the prices of meds were that low, then our taxes wouldn’t go towards manufacturing missiles to supply to other countries to kill people.
People are so selfish. /s
In America, your entire existence is a money making opportunity for someone else.
The land of opportunity… (Opportunity to exploit the less fortunate). Freedom costs a buck-o-five, have you paid yours?
Thought that was Willem Defoe for a hot second there
America needs a bill of human rights added to the Constitution with attention to health care, shelter, voting rights, and privacy. Business greed has been at the helm of the country for too long.
You’ve seen who they elected president, right? America couldn’t be further from doing what you proposed.
And now we won’t ever have the chance to vote for an alternative again.
“If I win, you’ll have have to vote again!”
FDR tried for a second bill of rights
Seriously, why didn’t Truman push this through?? What a difference that would have made!
Oh, man. I’ll drop this link, just scroll to the VP nomination section if you really wanna be missed off.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/1944_Democratic_National_Convention
We have a Bill of Rights, we just need to expand upon it. We also need to reinstate the Fairness Act, and make corporations not people again. Those two actions of eliminating the Fairness Act and making corporations people are responsible for 90% of the condition we’re in right now. Thanks Ronald
McDonaldReagan!
Have you tried dieing lol
There’s nothing wrong, it’s working as intended. It’s just not intended to work for YOU.
Fascism. That’s what.
The answer is capitalism. This is a direct result of capitalism.
That’s only part of the answer. Without capitalism the infusion wouldn’t even exist. It’s unfettered, unregulated, fundamentalist capitalism that’s the problem.
Lmao so capitalism only works when it’s HEAVILY regulated.
I hate to tell you this, but you’re saying that capitalism only works when it’s not capitalism.
Most things in life are not binary, they are on a spectrum. So is capitalism.
Now do socialism 😀
That’s nonsense, because whenever there is a product being sold at such massive markups, there is a HUGE opportunity to make money simply by undercutting the market (i.e. selling a cheaper alternative).
Either this is the result of overregulation forbidding cheaper, imported alternatives to be sold, monopoly control, or there’s more to the story than OP is telling us (such as iron only being this cheap in Germany because it’s subsidized / covered by insurance, etc.)
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.
