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Octafish

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8. Your balance due...is the house.

Reply to mahatmakanejeeves (Original post)

Thu Jul 23, 2015, 03:36 PM

Jul 2015

BTG has fought aggressively to keep competitors off the market. A competing product, Anavip, just received FDA approval this year and likely won't be on the market until late 2018. This lack of competition is one reason that snakebite treatments rack up such huge hospital bills -- $55,000. $89,000. $143,000. In May of this year, a snakebit Missouri man died after refusing to seek medical care, saying he couldn't afford the bill.

Geesh. I wonder if the snake handlers voted for Reagan?

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Man Bitten While Trying to Take Selfie With Rattlesnake [View all] mahatmakanejeeves Jul 2015 OP

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STOOPID should be painful and expensive. hobbit709 Jul 2015 #6

Your balance due...is the house. Octafish Jul 2015 #8