PARASITES IN US HEALTH CARE

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PARASITES IN US HEALTH CARE In early May my wife and I returned from a short vacation in Peru. Two weeks later I came down with severe diarrhea that has now continued unabated for six weeks. The cause has been identified as a parasite—Blastasytis Species.

This parasite is believed to be present in 23% of the American population and 100% of people in “less developed countries” (Wikipedia). Albendazole is the first line of treatment for this infection.

Albendazole tablets are sold throughout the world (outside of the US) for 1 penny to six cents each and are usually available as a non-prescription drug in any pharmacy. Inside the US the same pill is sold for $219 each (Wikipedia). After Blue Cross/Blue Shield (BCBS) approved their share of the cost, I was obliged to write a check for $649 to cover my co-pay for a 3-day supply of 12 pills, i.e. 4 pills per day. This is an experiment with no guarantee that it will be successful.

This medication has been in existence for 45 years. It is a generic medicine with an estimated one billion pills currently on the world market. However, Amenda Pharma (google it) has bought the US distribution rights, and thus they now monopolize the domestic market.

Ignoring parasites currently dining on the inside of my body, I am forced to ask myself the question, “Who are the parasites in the US Health Care System?” Is it the Trial Lawyers Assoc. or the American Medical Assoc. (AMA)? Is it the drug manufactures, or the distributers, or the insurance companies, or the politicians? Maybe the parasites are among the people themselves—the fraudulent claimers.

All I know is that I and my insurer had to pay up to 21,900 times more for pills here in the US than the amount an uninsured peasant pays for the same off-the-shelf medication in the rest of the world!

And please, no offense to the peasants—since I may become one of them soon.

[PGR88]

Also they are charity cases, did you not see that the manufacturer gave away a billion doses for free?

So you and I pay $200 a pill, so that Peru can pay $.0.50/pill? You are willing to support subsidizing both other countries' socialism and USA pharma companies? Why don't we do the same with cars? food?

Its simple - if a crony-capitalist big pharma co can manage to sell in Peru for $0.50, then let American distributors buy their pills there and sell them in the USA.

[Eva]

I was watching a video of Joe Rago, speaking at Hillsdale College and noticed a video on questions surrounding his death. I am presuming that you know who Joe Rago was and that he was the putative expert on Obamacare and its faults.

The video was from a conspiracy theory web site, but the theory that they are investigating makes sense. They claim that Obamacare is dependent on restricting coverage of drugs to generic drugs and that Hillary was involved in a huge pharmaceutical factory which produced many generic drugs, on the Ukrainian/Russian border. They say Rago knew about it.