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6. absent effective counter-incentives or regulations, yes.

Reply to pbmus (Reply #5)

Thu Oct 26, 2017, 03:05 PM

Oct 2017

insurance companies do a good job of making it difficult to prescribe certain medications.

unfortunately, they do it pretty much solely based on price.

which means that they actually have tougher hoops for me to jump through to get triptans (expensive but non-narcotic migraine medications) than to get narcotics (which i only use when the triptans fail because i'm paranoid about getting addicted).

how stupid is that???

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Capitalism does not work in medicine... [View all] pbmus Oct 2017 OP

What would anyone expect from the most corrupt healthcare system in the world. democratisphere Oct 2017 #1

i'm not convinced that "capitalism" can't work in medicine, unblock Oct 2017 #2

Sounds like you are leaning towards single payer.. pbmus Oct 2017 #3

single payer would certainly work better than what we have now, unblock Oct 2017 #4

What could have been, can be, what can happen.. pbmus Oct 2017 #5

absent effective counter-incentives or regulations, yes. unblock Oct 2017 #6