Economy Man Dies of Asthma Attack After Inhaler Cost Jumps $500

[44nutman]

Trump was the president on 1/10/2024?

Maybe.

 

[SKYNET]

… some of you guys rethinking your position on Luigi yet?
Then let’s see if you still want to talk about how that CEO had kids.

Are you asking if there's a shift to supporting the execution of this CEO?

or no longer thinking Luigi should get the death penalty?

 

[kflo]

I have a relative who had a stroke and spent a couple months in the hospital. His out of pocket bill was about $2,500. Insurance covered………$1.5 MILLION. We can’t put all the fault on the insurers.

 

[scoopj]

Frivolous. Nothing stopping him from going to the ER and getting a prednisone shot.

 

[My Spot]

Are you asking if there's a shift to supporting the execution of this CEO?

or no longer thinking Luigi should get the death penalty?

Let him get his edgelord "free Luigi!" on.

 

[scoopj]

Oh UHG huh?

… some of you guys rethinking your position on Luigi yet?

I think they should run a story every time someone dies as a direct result healthcare delays or pharmaceutical company fuckery. Let’s talk about their kids and their parents that are left behind in the wake of their personal tragedy. Then let’s see if you still want to talk about how that CEO had kids.

Only problem with this is, it’s the only news we would see all day long.

You’re better than that.

 

[Madmick]

You asking me to explain health insurance to you? I’ll let you google that one.

As usual you’re just trying to drag this down into pedantry because you think that that is what makes a good argument. Sorry you missed the first thread, but this CEO in question was responsible for some pretty terrible decision that hurt a lot of people. People that he entered a bargain with to take care of when they got sick. Sounds like you’re completely uneducated on the subject so maybe do your research.

I asked you a simple question. You snap and snark because it appears you cannot answer it.

 

[USA!USA!]

I have a relative who had a stroke and spent a couple months in the hospital. His out of pocket bill was about $2,500. Insurance covered………$1.5 MILLION. We can’t put all the fault on the insurers.

GOOD - THEY SHOULD PAY THAT

Glad to hear they didn't weasel out of it and leave your relative hanging they do to countless others.

 

[kflo]

GOOD - THEY SHOULD PAY THAT

Glad to hear they didn't weasel out of it and leave your relative hanging they do to countless others.

Part of the point is that it shouldn’t cost $1.5m……it’s not just the insurers….

 

[DoctorNick]

In a way they sometimes have. I briefly worked for a PBM and after wasting hours of both pharmacist and prescriber time, they (the provider) would basically give up.

Then to top it off, trying to report anything gets you a serious ass chewing from the higher ups. Our healthcare in the US is absolutely disgusting. My belsomra magically went from $29 for a 30ds to $175, so now I use ambien and feel like shit in the morning any time I need to take it.

That’s the American healthcare system. It’s collusion between insurance companies and pharmaceutical companies. Might as well just get rid of doctors and let them do that work too.

 

[Hellowhosthat]

Why does the inhaler cost $500?

Capitalism in a field which shouldn't involve capitalism.

 

[Hellowhosthat]

I have a relative who had a stroke and spent a couple months in the hospital. His out of pocket bill was about $2,500. Insurance covered………$1.5 MILLION. We can’t put all the fault on the insurers.

How the fuck can it cost $1.5million? Would love to know how they come to that figure.

 

[ShadowRun]

Oh UHG huh?

… some of you guys rethinking your position on Luigi yet?

I think they should run a story every time someone dies as a direct result healthcare delays or pharmaceutical company fuckery. Let’s talk about their kids and their parents that are left behind in the wake of their personal tragedy. Then let’s see if you still want to talk about how that CEO had kids.

Only problem with this is, it’s the

only news we would see all day long.

No you simpleton … durrr murder CEOs that come in and take over the systems that are currently in place and follow the trended but didn’t invent the

Insurance CEOs don’t set the prices on healthcare items and treatment

That dumbass murderer even said it’s too complex to understand the root of the problem

 

[Lee Danger]

I think they should run a story every time someone dies as a direct result healthcare delays or pharmaceutical company fuckery.

there isn't enough ink for those stories.

 

[Deleted member 592570]

Capitalism in a field which shouldn't involve capitalism.

You realize it's more complicated than that, right?

 

[Hellowhosthat]

You realize it's more complicated than that, right?

In terms of price gouging medication? It's just corruption and capitalism.

I'm not anti capitalism but in areas where life saving medication is at stake...

 

[Deleted member 592570]

In terms of price gouging medication? It's just corruption and capitalism.

I'm not anti capitalism but in areas where life saving medication is at stake...

Well before you said capitalism and now you said corruption and capitalism.

The corruption is the issue, not the capitalism.

Ripping your customers off is actually bad for business. The reason they can get away with it is corruption. Take away the corruption and they can't get away with ripping off their customers because a competitor will take their business.

 

[Hellowhosthat]

Well before you said capitalism and now you said corruption and capitalism.

The corruption is the issue, not the capitalism.

Ripping your customers off is actually bad for business. The reason they can get away with it is corruption. Take away the corruption and they can't get away with ripping off their customers because a competitor will take their business.

Sure, but then ask where they got the money to grease the hands they need to grease to be able to keep their predatory systems in place.

 

[Deleted member 592570]

Sure, but then ask where they got the money to grease the hands they need to grease to be able to keep their predatory systems in place.

Who cares? Price fixing is illegal. Just charge them and throw them in prison.

We had a massive price fixing scandal here in Canada a couple of years back but of course nothing happened to the cunts because of corruption.

Bread price-fixing in Canada - Wikipedia

en.m.wikipedia.org

 

[UberHere]

Well before you said capitalism and now you said corruption and capitalism.

The corruption is the issue, not the capitalism.

Ripping your customers off is actually bad for business. The reason they can get away with it is corruption. Take away the corruption and they can't get away with ripping off their customers because a competitor will take their business.

Make no mistake, the American healthcare system is not capitalism. It’s collusion. I’m a doctor and I can’t even tell my patients how much a drug, procedure, or test will cost them. It’s all negotiated between their insurance and the health system performing the test/procedure or pharmaceutical company in the case of a drug. The patient won’t know until they get the bill or try to pick up the drug. Something I prescribe for one patient will cost something completely different for another one under a different insurance plan. That is not fucking capitalism.