Some of us have had to deal with the American healthcare system :).
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ripcord@kbin.social 7 months agoGod damn a bunch of sad sacks in this thread
misanthropy@lemm.ee 7 months ago
magnetosphere@kbin.social 7 months ago
A large part of the American healthcare system is made of for-profit businesses. Capitalism and genuinely empathetic healthcare are mutually exclusive, and the parts that work have only managed to do so because of a shit-ton of regulation. Regulation that corporations are constantly fighting and struggling to weaken. They buy politicians to help.
Pharmaceutical companies will claim that drug prices are high because R&D is so expensive, but that didn’t stop them from fighting for the right to advertise prescription drugs on TV. Last I read, only the U.S. and Australia allow that. Producing and airing those ads can cost millions. R&D is expensive, but apparently not so expensive that they can’t afford that. Capitalism does not have a conscience.
I’m a sad sack because I’ve seen (and am currently seeing) friends and family members get screwed by a system that allegedly exists to help them, but really just profits off their pain. I know I’ll probably end up being exploited, too.
ripcord@kbin.social 7 months ago
Ok, but it's really nice that there's a new treatment giving a dude a way better quality of life and give hope to others.
We don't have to immediately turn everything into sadness. Sometimes stuff can be good, without a bunch of people trying to figure out why it sucks because everything sucks and woe is the world.
magnetosphere@kbin.social 7 months ago
You know what! You’re right.
ultra@feddit.ro 7 months ago
Romania also allows ads for medicine.