eatthecake@lemmy.world 10 months ago
22% reporting insufficient income to pay for prescription medicines or healthcare.
I’m curious about which medications and healthcare are so expensive. More than 1 in 5 is a lot of people and medicine and healthcare are usually cheap or free in Australia. Are there people with chronic conditions being ripped off?
billytheid@aussie.zone 10 months ago
i suffer from chronic pain and can’t afford medications going forward. i’m not sure what I’ll do tbh, as it’s not really possible to live like this. There are a lot of medications not covered by the PBS, due to intense lobbying designed to maximize profit on older medications; for me it means using illegal opioids(risking arrest or overdose) or suicide. If I were able bodied I’d try to take a few of those LNP scumbags who did this with me.