• @tartarin@lemm.ee
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    264 months ago

    That’s totally insane. That young man shouldn’t have died, that’s heartbreaking.

  • @BlameThePeacock@lemmy.ca
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    234 months ago

    #Murica

    Even without any insurance/coverage that specific medication (Adavair Diskus) is like $100 CDN ($70 USD) for 60 days where I live in Canada, and the generic is $20 cheaper than that.

      • Phoenixz
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        64 months ago

        And mi d you, astma inhalers aren’t anything special or a new discovery that requires billions of investment. This is stuff that was figured out decades ago and it’s simply abused out of greed

        The CEOs of these companies belong behind bars for murder

    • @adavis@lemmy.world
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      24 months ago

      I don’t have asthma, but can find what’s normal in Australia. On a pharmacy website

      Zempreon 100mcg CFC-Free Asthma Inhaler with Dose Counter 200 Doses - Salbutamol (S3)

      One of those inhalers is $9 AUD, or about $6 USD

  • @some_guy@lemmy.sdf.org
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    84 months ago

    “It’s insane that it’s happening in America,” Bil Schmidknecht said. “It’s not broken. It’s designed to work this way. It’s just hurting us.”

    Yes. Exactly. Keep repeating this. We need everyone to be aware of the stakes.

  • @SwampYankee@mander.xyz
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    24 months ago

    Saw this on NBC Nightly News last night, they framed pharmacy benefit managers as people who were there to reduce costs. Absolutely batshit insane thing to say. Like did a pharmacy benefit manager pay you to say that?