The Insulin Racket. Proof They Don't Give A damn About Us.

[NightskyeB4Dawn]

My young neighbor has been working very hard to leave home, get his own place, and he wants very much to be independent. He gets up every morning around 4am, to be at his job by 6am. He works in the hot sun, and he has to do heavy lifting. He sometimes has to work weekends. He graduated high school two years ago, and he had planned on having his own place by now, but that is not how it is playing out.

He has had three trips to the hospital in one month. Why? Because he can't afford his health insurance or his insulin.

The ridiculous cost of insulin is proof positive that pharmaceutical companies, don't give a damn if you live or die.

They have enough people to keep their scam afloat, so you poor struggling useless eaters, be damned. It does not start and stop with insulin. If they can't make money off off you, then you die, or move to another country.

[Snarl]

They have enough people to keep their scam afloat, so you poor struggling useless eaters, be damned. It does not start and stop with insulin. If they can't make money off of you, then you die, or move to another country.

My daughter has Type I diabetes. My brother has Type II diabetes. I don't know which is worse.

I asked my daughter to break it down for me a couple days ago. She told me if her insulin supply ran out, she'd go into a coma inside a week. Then she showed me how much of that stuff she's got stashed (and I felt a little better for her).

I visited my brother down in Florida on the 23d. He looked like he was pretty far down the hill. I know it's done a number on his eyes. He has diabetic neuropathy (whatever that means). His arms and legs have wasted away. And, he has a nasty rash on his one of his legs that his doctor calls a diabetic wound (again, whatever that means).

It is a shame the way they rake diabetics over the financial coals where insulin cost is concerned. And, I'll guarantee it costs nowhere near US prices anywhere I've ever been overseas. If memory serves, I'd get three vials of the stuff over in Korea for $40. I think it's ten times that price for a single vial over here.

[EndtheMadnessNow]

My young neighbor has been working very hard to leave home, get his own place, and he wants very much to be independent. He gets up every morning around 4am, to be at his job by 6am. He works in the hot sun, and he has to do heavy lifting. He sometimes has to work weekends. He graduated high school two years ago, and he had planned on having his own place by now, but that is not how it is playing out.

He has had three trips to the hospital in one month. Why? Because he can't afford his health insurance or his insulin.

The ridiculous cost of insulin is proof positive that pharmaceutical companies, don't give a damn if you live or die.

They have enough people to keep their scam afloat, so you poor struggling useless eaters, be damned. It does not start and stop with insulin. If they can't make money off off you, then you die, or move to another country.

Sad, & damn sad. I wonder why so many young people & kids have diabetes??

Here I thought America had the highest rate. Though it's still ridiculously too high.


Statista


Biology dogma: (2013 TEDx vid) Stephane Bancel talk on DNA -- mRNA -- proteins. The biotech industry has made wonders for patients in the last 30 years making recombinant proteins, like EPO and insulin. What if mRNA could be a drug and the body could make its own missing proteins on demand?



Only for those that can afford it, assuming it works & does not cause new issues.




@GavinNewsom

Fascinating how medical care is the first thing to have been Balkanized: traveling across state lines for reproductive care, states now making their own insulin and possibly creating generic versions of prescription drugs, etc. That this is rapidly becoming normal is not good. Will be interesting to see how the insurance industry responds.

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I think we know how all that is going to turn out.

[727Sky]

Regardless of what they say about American medical care.. It sucks and is a rip-off...... as anyone who can travel out of country soon learns.

[DuckforcoveR]

Insulin should be free. Full stop. 

A very good friend of mine who passed away at the height of the lock down (from Covid) struggled his entire adult life with "car payment or insulin this month?".

It was incredibly frustrating to watch that process play out day by day 

[Snarl]

Insulin should be free. Full stop.

Yup. They've taken advantage for too long.

I can think of a laundry list of things to go along with that.

[NightskyeB4Dawn]

Of course we knew that insulin was just the tip of the iceberg, and that there has never been any real concern from any big business conglomerate or organization, about the well-being of humankind or life on this planet. 

Money, greed, power, all shut down any feelings, desires, or actions of goodness or compassion in the mind, heart and spirit.

The media is constantly blaming the poor immigrants for our drug problems here in America.

No one ever stops and asks where those "poor" immigrants get there supplies.