• some_guy@lemmy.sdf.org
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    “It’s insane that it’s happening in America,” Bil Schmidknecht said. “It’s not broken. It’s designed to work this way. It’s just hurting us.”

    Yes. Exactly. Keep repeating this. We need everyone to be aware of the stakes.

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    I guess one way to “make America healthy again” is to kill off all the sick people.

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    That’s totally insane. That young man shouldn’t have died, that’s heartbreaking.

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    #Murica

    Even without any insurance/coverage that specific medication (Adavair Diskus) is like $100 CDN ($70 USD) for 60 days where I live in Canada, and the generic is $20 cheaper than that.

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        And mi d you, astma inhalers aren’t anything special or a new discovery that requires billions of investment. This is stuff that was figured out decades ago and it’s simply abused out of greed

        The CEOs of these companies belong behind bars for murder

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      I don’t have asthma, but can find what’s normal in Australia. On a pharmacy website

      Zempreon 100mcg CFC-Free Asthma Inhaler with Dose Counter 200 Doses - Salbutamol (S3)

      One of those inhalers is $9 AUD, or about $6 USD

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    Saw this on NBC Nightly News last night, they framed pharmacy benefit managers as people who were there to reduce costs. Absolutely batshit insane thing to say. Like did a pharmacy benefit manager pay you to say that?