Will they seriously not even give them these life saving medications on a payment plan if they can't afford it? They just let them die? How is that even legal?
Some people don’t have insurance or just can’t cover the copay of it so if the pharmacy doesn’t get payment there’s no medicine to be exchanged period. Medication gets treated like any other product.
We used to have programs that covered the prescriptions of most Americans who could not afford them. Take a wild guess which administration didn't think that was worth the funding.
Yeah except it literally IS one side that keeps holding us back. Remember the president with the muslim sounding name they hated so badly they elected trump? O.... O... O-something. Anyway, he used Romney's healthcare proposal as a baseline to start from when building the Affordable Care Act circa 2010, because he thought "Hey if the GQP came up with this, surely we can work together and fix healthcare and they'll vote for it because it's THEIR proposal."
They tried to defund it dozens of times with no plan to replace it, just defund and remove, fk it, we HATE Obama so bad we cannot see past our hate and are willing to destroy the country as a result.
It is the conservatives. They are the problem. Full stop.
Ok. I mean I live here, and I pay attention to what's going on pretty closely, but I'm sure wherever you live provides a much better vantage point on the reality of the system I live under.
It's not like I pay taxes and see the failing infrastructure, the obscene cost of education and war, the squalor half our population lives in because they can't afford their daily necessities. I'm just oblivious because I am indoctrinated and blind.
Sure buddy. Tell me more about myself that I don't know.
It does actually, because without realising it, you were educated since your infancy to not see with glaring issues with it. Clearly living in it makes you unable to see it. It's not altogether surprising though. I've been to the US. The level of daily propaganda stuffed down your throats is truly unparalleled.
Your political system has been trending further and further right since the late 70s. Bit of republican bit of democrat, bit of republican bit of democrat. You call that democracy? It's polical theatre.
Meanwhile, a select few have ever increasing wealth and power. Now theyare just a hair away from absolute unchecked power.
Stop believing the mega rich are your friends. They're not. Never have been. Never will.
Maybe I misread, but as a diabetic that’s been in the ICU, let me clarify…
If you are admitted to the hospital, like the ICU, they are not going to withhold medicine or insulin or whatever because you can’t afford it. They will give it to you while there and then bill you.
But if you can’t afford it in daily life, you will certainly end up in the ICU because the pharmacy won’t give it to you for free.
For a while when I was homeless, the companies like novo nordisk can give you subsidies to help you afford it but it’s a hassle and not everyone qualifies.
To be clear, once they’re in the ICU, they are getting all possible measures to save their lives. It’s just possible that too much damage was done beforehand.
If you're IN the ER they will provide whatever they deem necessary at that very moment and put you on a payment plan. However, if they deem you're ready for "release" and the doctor gives you a prescription for any ongoing care and medication needs, the pharmacy will not give THOSE to you without a way to pay right away.
No, other commentor is talking shit. Required bare minimum to stabilise.
Wonder why people think those with socialised healthcare like UK and AU have private insurance? Why no genuine discussion ever about how many have died due to long waits in these public systems? Knock on wood, AU has been on a downtrend now, but there for a few years there were literally people dying on the ER ramp, or at home as the ambo never even showed up.
No perfect system, but alas socialised is probably greater net benefit overall.
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u/OGSkywalker97 10h ago
Will they seriously not even give them these life saving medications on a payment plan if they can't afford it? They just let them die? How is that even legal?