• Dasus@lemmy.world
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      21 hours ago

      I was like… “isn’t it”?

      Ugh, I just imagined how fucking impossible it would be for my friend to pay like several hundreds for her and her kids insulins if they had to pay as much as in the US.

      What are we gonna do with the US ufff

      • corsicanguppy@lemmy.ca
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        20 hours ago

        We can hope that when California calexits that we can take it on. Bonus if we can be in the EU by then (recap: solid borders. Land border with Denmark, sea border with France. We’re set!)

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      13 hours ago

      That is the only place it stays, on the ballot not in policy, bills. Because that would hurt the donors.

      America just said no to duplicity.

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      14 hours ago

      It was on the ballot in 2020, we voted for it. Democrats have no credibility since they don’t follow through.

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      So why couldn’t they do that in the last 4 years?

      Because the Republicans, or a mysteriously convenient amount of Dems voted it down every time?

      And you say this has been going on for 20 years now?

      I’m gonna go out on a limb and say the Dems probably wouldn’t have been able to pass stuff yet again if they were in power.

      Really we need to dimantle the Duopoly and take our country back

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      22 hours ago

      A cap on the price Medicaid would pay for insulin for the people it covers and unenforced pledge from pharmaceutical companies to cap their prices that they could reverse at any time was on the ballot

      Better than what we’re about to get, but far short of the right it should be

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      20 hours ago

      crime, disease, and pain

      Did you include racism? I feel like racism, hatred toward women, and just raw hatred of people, really scored well with the base.

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    16 hours ago

    Literally saw a mother in tears because she couldn’t afford her child’s Insulin. Her and her husband work full time jobs. They work hard and are normal people. But now they have to ration the insulin doses to try and last the entire month.

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      a 30 day supply of insulin for me would be 765 retail without my workplaces insurance. Insulin pump supplies would be another 450 a month. I dont know how anyone affords it without insurance from work. A parent would have to devote their entire minimum wage paycheck for nothing but insulin. No food, housing or clothes epenses unless they had another parent. And year by year a diabetics body needs a slightly higher dose as insulin resistence builds. Pretty tragic to be diabetic and poor in the US.

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      12 hours ago

      I used to work customer service for a mail order pharmacy and about every 1-2 weeks I would get a phone call from somebody threatening to commit suicide because they could no longer afford their medication most often this was for insulin.

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    16 hours ago

    Didn’t this already get pointed out when Elon bought Twitter and that account impersonated Eli Lilly saying insulin should be free?

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    You have to establish in law and in the minds of the people that the government has a duty to provide affordable health care for it’s people. Every other developed nation (and many developing ones) have figured it out. Americans have not, like at all.

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    But what about the medical industry’s right to gouge you? Free market isn’t free market if you can’t dangle the medicine even further away, laughing at someones child’s crawling body, the child too weak to even reach up for it, with a trail of tears behind the kid as you continue to step backwards, smiling even wider, almost frolicking.

    It’s what Adam Smith envisioned, I’m sure of it.

    Also, I’m a big fan of Ayn Rand.