How do people survive in America? This is with insurance!

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• db2@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  We don’t. Seriously, we die.

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  • CatDogL0ver@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    This is commerciallsed medicine for us!

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• JasonDJ@lemmy.zip ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  My employer sends out a sheet every year that itemizes our entire comp package.

  The single most expensive is my insurance, a family EPO with a $750/1500 deductible.

  I pay $8200/yr. My employer pays nearly $33,000.

  Forty. Thousand. Dollars. For one family.

  Plus another $10k or so for Medicare and Dental and Vision.

  $50k, per year, all told.

  And then deductibles, co-pays, etc.

  And then…the fuckers…you put money in your FSA but can’t locate the receipt? Fuck off man, that money is for your employer now.

  Our President is fucking children with zero consequence, and I need to show a fucking receipt to reimburse a fucking $3 prescription, with my own money that I put there.

  After myself and my employer already paid $50k combined into the system?

  Fuck this country man.

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  • wakko@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    ThIs CrEaTeS jObS

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• SaveTheTuaHawk@lemmy.ca ⁨14⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Get on a bus to evil Canada.

  this drug is $55 for 30 day supply at Costco Canada.

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• cannedtuna@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  @CatDogL0ver@lemmy.world yo I take the same stuff and was shocked at how much it is, but I found they have a discount card on the manufacturer website that brings it down to $10. us.trintellix.com/savings-support/savings-card

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  • DoomedFromTheStart@lemmy.zip ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    What is it for?

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    • cannedtuna@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

      Depression. You have to have tried 3 other meds first that didn’t work out.

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• BoosBeau@lemmy.world ⁨12⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Hahahahaha. That’s the fun part - we don’t!

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• ouRKaoS@lemmy.today ⁨16⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Americans: “This medicine costs more than my paycheck… I bet Jack Daniel’s will work just fine!”

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  • ForestGreenGhost@literature.cafe ⁨14⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Geez what an outdated stereotype. Americans drink Tito’s and Ranch Water™ now. Please try not to be a bigot.

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    • ouRKaoS@lemmy.today ⁨8⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      It’s a generational thing.

      Whiskey -> Vodka -> Edibles

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• gravitas_deficiency@sh.itjust.works ⁨19⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Psh, that’s nothing. I’ve got an injectable med I need to take every 3 months. My insurance covers it, thank fucking christ - because unadjusted, it costs over $20,000 per dose. No, I’m not kidding, or exaggerating. Yes, I was absolutely disgusted when I learned that.

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  • SaveTheTuaHawk@lemmy.ca ⁨13⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Rare genetic disorders:

    Friedreich’s Ataxia: SkyClarys, US$400,000/yr.

    Spinal and Muscle Atrophy: US$2.8M for a single injection.

    Leqembi for Alzheimers, $400,000/yr*

    *common side effect, brain hemorrhage. No refunds.

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• pineapplelover@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨13⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Is this from the trump launched medicine website?

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• ordnance_qf_17_pounder@reddthat.com ⁨22⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  I live in the UK and take anxiety meds. All I need to do is go to the local pharmacy and collect it once a month, no cost. For everything that is bad here, at least I don’t have to deal with this kind of shit.

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• Assassassin@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨17⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  I’ve had a little bit of success with costplus. The site borderline looks like a scam with how much mark cuban has plastered his name across it, but the prices for some stuff w/o insurance are cheaper than I can get them with insurance at pharmacies.

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• Sanctus@anarchist.nexus ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  We go without, and if that would kill us it does

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• sparkles@piefed.zip ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  You should see cancer meds. 😭

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  • suzyq@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    I have, for my child. A local branch of a charity covers all of the pediatric oncology patients’ prescriptions so the families don’t have to worry about it. They also have prepaid cards that they give out monthly to families to spend on whatever they might need.

    It’s fucked that I’m moved to tears over this practically every time I fill his prescriptions before we head home. Having the medicine he needs shouldn’t have to send someone into bankruptcy if the charity branch didn’t cover it.

    I hate the price of prescriptions in this country.

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    • sparkles@piefed.zip ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

      Arguing with the insurance about why you need medicine when you’re sick, while you get sicker is so twisted. I’m glad your family was shielded from that at the minimum.

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• happy_wheels@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  We don’t, that’s the neat part! 🙃

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• Algernon@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  This is fucked, of course. That is one of the new generation of antidepressants, but it isn’t radically different than some others that would be less expensive. If it’s the one you need to be on because it works, see if a GoodRX coupon reduces that.

  If that med isn’t for sure helping, there are cheaper options your pdoc should work with you to find. Your prescription coverage sucks ass if this is the cost of Trintellix, but you know that. We are a cesspool of a country.

  Don’t ask me what my specialty med costs. It’s exponents of this.

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• capt_wolf@lemmy.world ⁨15⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  We don’t. Thanks Nixon. Thanks Ehrlichman. Thanks Kaiser. And thanks Hilary too. Even Obama was helpful to the scheme.

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• boogiebored@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  we dont

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• BingBong@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  You have to work to get decent insurance. If you don’t work and you are Ill then you can die. 😘

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  • CatDogL0ver@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    I worked all my life. This is Medicare

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• Gork@sopuli.xyz ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  That’s absolutely insane pricing.

  I take the exact same medication (sadly there’s no generic), and with my insurance it comes out to $175 for a 90 day supply.

  What is your pharmacy benefits manager? I had the hardest time when my health insurance used OptumRX (they can go the way of Mamma the Mia for all I care) as they refused to pay out for 6 months until all the hoops were jumped through.

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  • TroublesomeTalker@feddit.uk ⁨22⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    What’s maddening is even this pricing is about what it costs off the shelf in the UK on a private prescription, no insurance involved, and like a 10th of that through the NHS. Like they don’t even try to be consistent about it.

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• Bullerfar@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  But, capitalism bro!

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• hardcoreufo@lemmy.world ⁨14⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Even when you have an affordable prescription good luck getting it filled. I’ve been waiting over a week and Walgreen’s is still fucking around with it. I’ve been out the last two days and starting to get withdrawl symptoms. Luckily its nothing I need to survive but going unplanned cold turkey is not healthy.

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  • ebolapie@lemmy.world ⁨13⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Aw fuck I am so sorry. Fucking around with supplying black box warning drugs should be illegal. Discontinuation syndrome can be really dangerous.

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• homes@piefed.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  Go to GoodRx and see if you can get a coupon

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• Uranus_Hz@lemmy.zip ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  Cost plus drugs dot com

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