Posted on 02/15/2023 7:10:31 PM PST by Olog-hai
That’s exactly what it is
I’m just on a tear about this today because I walked out of a drugstore yesterday with a new medicine my doc put me on that was $1613/month. I have pretty much Cadillac insurance through my work so it was $0 for me, but if my self employed neighbor with two kids needed it he’d have to pay $1613 which might as well be a million because he couldn’t afford it. His options would be to drive to Mexico and buy it for $260 (no prescription required), get a telehealth doctor to prescribe it to a Canadian pharmacy & get it shipped to him for $300, get it in the EU for $85, Dubai for about the same, or India for about $10 (just guessing on that one). We’re in the most advanced nation on the planet and half our citizens effectively don’t have access to drugs that the average person in some third world chithole can easily obtain.
Of course if he was one of the democrats protected voting class that has never had a job and procreates for a living it would be free for him. He’s just an average working American so it’s unobtainable to him unless he jumps through his ass to get it. Somebody will pipe in and say “but it’s subsidized, do you want that in the US?”. It’s more like price controlled, not subsidized, the governments are limiting the amount they can charge but they’re not subsidizing it. They’re still making a profit at $85, just not the profit they’d make selling it at $1613. Letting the free market work should always be the default choice but we DO NOT have a free market in pharmaceuticals and health care. Between insurance companies setting pricing and government regulations restricting access and guaranteeing monopolies to pharmaceutical companies who contribute more to Congress than any other industry, we have the illusion of a free market where there is none. Big insurance, pharmaceuticals, and government are bleeding us dry and they punish guys like my neighbor for not toeing the line & being part of the collective.
Took the words right out of my mouth. Kinda like NYS providing heating assistance welfare in lieu of drilling more to bring down prices. Talk about fuzzy budgeting that is a lose lose.
Don’t try to reason around it, and don’t blaspheme God. Socialized healthcare is socialized healthcare.
How can he? He’s dead.
I did not blaspheme God and don’t you even presume to tell me how how I should conduct my relationship with him you worthless little ball licking prick.
I fear you did (the “more money than God” comment), and you also are continuing to act as an apologist for socialism, which although based on atheism is practiced by several Islamic regimes. To be fair, you may not have realized that; although your readiness to fall into “filthy communication” (as Colossians 3:8 calls it; I called you no names) should make you re-think things, with all due respect.
Maybe it would be better to get the kids off these dangerous drugs coming over the border and just prescribe them free opiates. That would make as much sense.
You can fear what you want, that’s your business. My relationship with God is my business and you will stay out of it. The idiocy of your posts proves you have no idea the meaning of socialism.
Again, with all due respect, it was you who brought God into it. And He does have His own parameters with respect to how people relate to Him. Nothing more than that. Have a good day.
Exactly what I SAID, way upthread. 😉
Keep your respect and keep your opinions out of others relationship with God. Just go away.
Opus? You’re the one who came on my thread.
If you aren’t a Christian, then I apologize, because I get a bit defensive sometimes over worldly-sounding clichés. I also react to seeming defenses of socialism similarly.
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