Pharmaceutical Companies being giant POS

[8manpick]

“I had a shitty time coming out of school back in my day so people need to keep having a shitty time” is one hell of a taek.

[chum1]

https://twitter.com/katieporteroc/status/1322560947525840896

[star seed 7]

she's trash.  new elizabeth warren.

[chum1]

https://twitter.com/RepKatiePorter/status/1394724627566391297

[MakeItRain]

Oh man, sys and kim carnes trigger warning needed

[Institutional Control]

So, my insurance doesn’t cover name brand drugs. My daughters neurologist prescribed her a medication that doesn’t have a generic yet.  He gave me a coupon for 50% off.  Take it in to be filled and the pharmacy says that will it be $537.  Oh, but I have a coupon and they tell me that’s the price after the coupon.

So, the drug company has some program you can enroll in for discounted pricing. So, I ended up getting it for $340.  So, $340 a month every month, forever.


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[DaBigTrain]

So, my insurance doesn’t cover name brand drugs. My daughters neurologist prescribed her a medication that doesn’t have a generic yet.  He gave me a coupon for 50% off.  Take it in to be filled and the pharmacy says that will it be $537.  Oh, but I have a coupon and they tell me that’s the price after the coupon.

So, the drug company has some program you can enroll in for discounted pricing. So, I ended up getting it for $340.  So, $340 a month every month, forever.


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I was recently diagnosed with a pretty rare disease. I’m fine but it’s a chronic condition that could get worse over time, and there is no cure. I started the first kind of treatment for it, but if this doesn’t work there is a much better treatment, and really the only treatment. It’s $20k a year…..

[Spracne]

Yeah, our system sucks. Even if you have "Cadillac" insurance, try being out of the country for more than a month and trying to convince your insurer to authorize a 90-day supply of your expensive-ass prescription. (Hint: they won't.)

[BIG APPLE CAT]

i will never understand why we do things this way in america. I mean i do understand it from the sense that pharma companies have a tremendous amount of resources to ensure that the laws are not changed in a way that would benefit the masses, but damn.

[sonofdaxjones]

https://www.bmj.com/content/378/bmj.o1808

“It is always difficult to prove a negative, but I think we can safely say that after a vast amount of research conducted over several decades there is no convincing evidence that depression is caused by serotonin abnormalities, particularly by lower levels or reduced activity of serotonin.”