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#2 Reason to Hate People Who Hate Big Pharma
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January 14, 2016 at 3:47 pm
(This post was last modified: January 14, 2016 at 3:47 pm by Tiberius.)
If you have insurance, the prices generally aren't so bad (for prescriptions). Last month I got put on a medication for heartburn (30 pills) that CVS tried to charge me $80 for because apparently they didn't enter my insurance details correctly. After insurance it was $5.
Where the US healthcare system fails is with the big expenses like hospital visits, labs, specialists, etc. That's on top of what you are already paying each month just to have the insurance. Bernie Sanders needs to be President so we can fix this shit once and for all. 
I am pro modern medicine. I am not anti-big Pharma er say, just more anti the way they run them and price medicines (and release medicines not properly tested, or market them on TV to everyone, etc).
Like someone else said, you can have problems with the big pharmaceutical companies without being into woo, or against modern medicine.
“Eternity is a terrible thought. I mean, where's it going to end?”
― Tom Stoppard, Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead  (January 14, 2016 at 3:47 pm)Tiberius Wrote: If you have insurance, the prices generally aren't so bad (for prescriptions). Last month I got put on a medication for heartburn (30 pills) that CVS tried to charge me $80 for because apparently they didn't enter my insurance details correctly. After insurance it was $5. My inhalers are still pretty pricey.  Medicine should be socialized. The US spends way too goddamn much on defense and not enough on its own people.  (January 14, 2016 at 12:59 pm)dyresand Wrote: Big pharma makes a ton of money in reality the medications themselves are fairly cheap to produce They aren't fairly cheap to produce. R&D is massively expensive.
If The Flintstones have taught us anything, it's that pelicans can be used to mix cement.
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By the way, Imitrex totally rocks.
If The Flintstones have taught us anything, it's that pelicans can be used to mix cement.
-Homer Simpson 
I love big pharma even though I am a slave to their overpricing. I will give you all my monies when you give me pretty capsules that make my life worth living.
Prices for medication aren't that bad in the UK, but in the end we are all slaves to big pharma one way or another...unfortunately.
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January 14, 2016 at 10:46 pm
(This post was last modified: January 14, 2016 at 10:47 pm by MTL.)
I completely feel your pain. I get em too. And they ruin my life in fairly significant measure.
I was given Frova once and I will say that it more or less got rid of the migraine, but made me into a total zombie. I would NEVER try to operate a car while on that medication, but it rendered me a bit useless for any other task, that requires concentration, too. People have seen me do some strange-ass things trying to relieve migraines. I've spent the night on the kitchen floor, in tears, with bags of frozen peas clutched to my head. my personal worst-ever migraine experience, if anyone is interested (and don't feel obliged): RE: #2 Reason to Hate People Who Hate Big Pharma
January 14, 2016 at 10:50 pm
(This post was last modified: January 14, 2016 at 10:50 pm by Losty.)
Things like intense unrelenting migraines, insomnia, inconsolable panic, or frequent hallucinations weigh on me until I become suicidal. I cannot face life without my meds. So evil greedy bastards that they just might be, I love big pharma always.
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