As long as you’re not a Senator or Congressperson or ahem sitting President, giving out shit about people not being entitled to this, that, and the other being “handed” to them by the government, while being handed a big paycheque by the government, you’re good!

You can use coupons from their site directly on your phone at pharmacies, FWIW. They just scan your phone or type in the code.

For sure, good points and I totally agree. I hope we have a chance to pass M4A sooner than 30-40 years from now and there’s so much popular support that I have a lot of hope, but I agree that even if we just address drug prices it would help things a lot. I just don’t think we need to settle for that and I really want…

Except for all those people who’re like “we have the best healthcare in the WORLD not like those darn socialist countries like France where people queue in the street for months to get their bone set I presume haha”. 

I do that for a couple of drugs I use long term; but it doesn’t help much with something you need right now.

It’s time to ditch private corporate medicine.

And everybody agrees on that, too. But god forbid anyone try to fix it.

Try goodrx.com to shop coupons for prices on uncovered meds too, I’ve had some success with that site. 

If you want to tell Stephen he did a good job personally, here’s the UHC twitter, anyway.

Well, UHC is trying as hard as they can to do a good job at taking care of people, you can tell they’re working hard because they’re paying the CEO Stephen J. Hemsley 66.13 million dollars a year to do a good job. Good job, Stephen.

I suffer from cyclical vomiting: in other words, I can’t stop puking once I start. It will go on for DAYS. If I get the onandestron right after an incident, I can puke like a normal person. Sorry if TMI but that is one of those medications that should not warrant an ER visit, especially during a norovirus outbreak…

I read a study where ER doctors in the Chicago area tried giving onandestron to people at the start of a norovirus outbreak, and it lessened the number of people who developed the norovirus, and resulted in less hospitalizations.

It is a good start until we can get single payer, which likely will not be in the remainder of my lifespan (30-40 years). The government has manufactured drugs during wartime and other emergencies, and there is no reason we couldn’t do it right now. Lets add chemotherapy and related immunological drugs to that list…

After just having gone through a month of pneumonia where I had to do a second course of antibiotics because the first didn’t work, I’m never EVER moving back to the U.S. This is literally my nightmare.

I mean, yes. But with a single-payer system that’s universal and free at the point-of-service and beyond, that becomes less of an issue. And if it’s single-payer, the government has way more leverage when it comes to lowering prices.

I just love it when my insurance denies a script because their is an over the counter variant available. Most recently denied: an expensive fungicide ear drop because it is similar to athletes foot cream.

We also need the government to cap prescription drug costs and manufacture essential medications that it can sell direct to consumers for a low cost: insulin, antibiotics, birth control, cardiac medications, essential psych meds, etc. 

I was in the hospital last week, and I’m honestly surprised MORE people don’t die of medical errors and arbitrary denials. I had them try to give me medication that was not meant for me (it was ordered under my name by accident). Then they tried to give me a medication I can’t have because I have chronic renal failure…

This country is so fucked when it comes to healthcare. It’s asinine.

This is why we need candidates to unequivocally support Medicare For All. No more working with insurance companies, no more hedging, no more capitulating. Either you’re for the people or you’re for the billionaires raking in profit while people die or go bankrupt trying not to die. Let’s have no more questions as to…