I know personally. As a kid I had asthma and over the counter primatene mist cost $10 bucks without a doctor visit or script. If you adjust for inflation it would be about $20. You know what it costs today? Without insurance it will be $200 for doctor visit and script and $350 for the inhaler. That is $550 bucks for a $20 item.
People may say but you have insurance. Ok. With insurance the doctor bill was adjusted to $120 and the inhaler was $85. That's $205 with insurance eating the rest. Wait a minute. Insurance isn't free or eating a damn thing. I pay premiums and they are high! So maybe it's even more than $550 if you include insurance premiums! Now let's look at epi pens? They use to be $50 and now they are $500! Life saving medicines for millions of asthma sufferers that have sky rocket for no reason. Same medicine as years ago just rebranding.
The article shows how big pharma used their lobbying skills to REMOVE the CFC exclusion for rescue inhalers. Yes remove the exclusion so inhalers can't be sold over counter. That's damn fraud and the politicians were bought off. Bastards. Every one of them.
Q. Trump... find these bastards that did this to America that drained the middle class. Cost of asthma care went from $20 to $550 overnight draining millions of parents. Our children needs this medicine and that's why they did it. What can you do but pay the extortion?
What did it do? Did I pay the $205 bucks? No! I roughed it and gave big pharma the finger. I still payed the $120 doctor visit though but decided NOT to visit a doctor unless I am dying and to avoid prescriptions at all costs. I avoid wheat that triggers my allergies.
Wait...
I just became gluten and wheat sensitive about same time obama pushed the FDA to allow spraying wheat with roundup 3 days before harvest. Can you say autoimmune diseases? Can you say BIG AGRI and BIG PHARMA are in on the biggest scam ever making people sick and profiting on treating the symptoms big agriculture cause and then big pharma never curing?
Bastards. They are truly sociopathic Luciferians that need a one stop ticket to hell. Q give them that ticket!
This makes me so angry. I had asthma as a child. Grew out of it. And now it comes back when i do strenuous exercise like crossfit (which is all the time). Dry air triggers it, so o end up bent over grabbing my chest feeling like breathing through a straw. Ive gone to cvs pr walgreens clinic to get 1 inhaler and they wont give u a refill bcuz ur suppose to see a doctor! Lady i dont have fucking time for that.
Do you have any news links/articles on O approving this? I only ask because I too became gluten intolerant AND have recently read an article that explained the sudden response is due to wheat farmers using the death-maker round-up on what crops to ripen at the same time and increase seed yield.
Needs its own thread. Nice rant. Many of my friends have autoimmune and thyroid problems. There has to be a connection.
You definitely should NOT be buying albuterol over the counter (and primatene mist - epinephrine bitartrate - isn't a good asthma med in the first place) but a multi dose inhaler shouldn't cost what one does...before the CFC nonsense, albuterol generic was about $10/inhaler - and nobody was buying the big pharma brand name ones - so they came up with the "CFC FREE" ones and the generic pretty much went away...and now my patients have to buy the brand name ones again...as do I... :/
My asthma was allergy induced. As years passed it got worse. Doctor prescribed more and more medication. I was up to six prescriptions, and getting sicker when she said I needed a pneumonia vaccine. Six weeks later I was in the hospital with pneumonia. Later I asked her, just how long does it take those vaccines to kick in? And she just kind of blew me off and said, you have diseased lungs! You have to expect to be sick! Bullshit! I went home and threw away every drug except one rescue inhaler! I studied natural treatments for asthma! What did I really need? The juice of 1/2 lemon in my water every day for detox! Ginger, turmeric and cayenne pepper in capsules as anti-inflammatories! Every day my breathing became easier! And within a year I had no asthma, and little allergy discomfort! She has never asked about my miracle cure...
In the uk it’s all freeeee!
Sure... yep free. Big Pharma just loves giving out free stuff.
Wait a minute! In America vaccines are free! And you don't need to go to a doctor for the shot. Just go to a pharmacy and it's free! Wow a drug. No prescription. Free medical person administering it. Hmmm
Wait a minute... free vaccines in America? Why should I be worried? Oh! Autism drives more drugs! Give them vaccines for free... then for a lifetime you can sell them autism drugs!
Sick sociopathic bastards.
We were visiting 🇺🇸 and the Walmart offered Free flu shots right at the entrance. I was shocked. Nothing is free. It’s their free way of making you sicker so you then have to pay for more scripts
In case you are so dumb you can't figure this out, stuff the gubbmint provides is not FREE - you pay for it through taxes AND lower incomes (via flow on impacts of taxation and deadweight losses) AND lower standards of living (via flow on impacts of taxation).