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In reply to the discussion: 60 Minutes is covering Big Pharma [View all]hunter
(38,311 posts)If I don't take my meds I eventually end up in the E.R.. That will blow our $8000 deductible really quick. And it's never really $8000 because of the hospital charges our insurance rejects.
One of my brothers has similar health issues but he lives close enough to Mexico that he can buy his meds there for considerably less.
I'd ask him to buy me drugs and mail them, but he got onto some kind of U.S. government shit list for buying medicines outside the country. He didn't like being treated like a criminal. This even happens sometimes to people who buy meds on the internet from Canada.
None of the drugs me and my brother have prescriptions for are the fun sort. They have unpleasant side effects. Nobody would take them for fun. But the alternative of no meds is worse.
Recently when I picked up my prescriptions the clerk suggested I go beg for some kind of manufacturer coupon program.
Funny how that even with the coupons, the medicines still cost less outside the U.S.A.., no coupons, no insurance.
Maybe if the pharmaceutical companies didn't spend all that money on shitty consumer advertising we could have reasonably priced drugs for those unfortunate enough to need them. Obviously shitty consumer advertising and buying corrupt U.S. politicians is highly profitable.