US Insulin Costs 8X Other Countries

[DanieRains]

https://pharmanewsintel.com/news/amp/insulin-prices-8x-higher-in-the-us-compared-to-similar-nations

And I just watched a commercial to protect insulin access.

We're getting so screwed so bad.

[dalton99a]

1. Our heathcare system is barbaric.

[Bernardo de La Paz]

3. Yup. Twice as expensive per capita & 14th in world and worse in infant mortality

A nation is not judged by the solid platinum health care politicians and billionaires get. The rich everywhere can fly and buy what they want.

It is judged by how it treats the poorest. That takes national empathy from its people, or at least from the people in power (tilted unfairly toward cold-hearted RepubliQons in the US).

[Kablooie]

2. But Americans are all rich so it doesn't matter.

[Aussie105]

4. It's a conspiracy!

One arm of the corporate money making empire sells you fast/unhealthy food so that many turn diabetic by age 26, then another arm of the same empire sells you insulin.

There's probably a third arm of said empire that makes sure you never get to make that connection . . .oh, yeah! Advertising!

Got you coming and going, many hands in your pocket helping themselves.

'Land of the brave and the free' doesn't cover it at all well.

[uponit7771]

5. Yep, at the time we're asking Americans to trust big pharma

[justgamma]

6. They are now running ads

against negotiating drug prices for Medicare. They claim that they will take your meds away. I just want to scream.

[Vinca]

7. Those ads are driving me nuts, too. Their claim is the exact opposite of what would happen.

If Medicare can negotiate prices, more people will be able to afford the damn drugs.

[I_UndergroundPanther]

8. My blood sugar levels

Are controlled with diet and pills.

I hope I don't need insulin someday,because if the republican death cult gets thier way insulin will cost way more than it does now.

We need universal healthcare and to force the greedy pharma CEOs to pay for thier greed and the harm they cause overreaching for profits no matter who they harm.