My buddy at work pays about 700. With insurance. Not insulin but I have an inhaler that’s 400$ a month. Just to breath. All medication prices are out of touch with reality.
These are the same dolts that said “just go buy this generic insulin analog at Walmart for $25 a vial”. That won’t work for everyone, and when you’ve fucked around with cheap meds, you eventually find out. Now you owe a hospital $60k because you’ve been admitted for a few days with DKA.
“WHO is paying that much? I am a data set of one and I only pay $50! Therefore, everyone else must only pay 50! They cannot possibly have different insurance plans, different circumstances, or no insurance at all! I am not a complete DIPSHIT!”
I take medication for diabetes. It cost $990 per month. My insurance has a 12K deductible. They told me they would pay 80% after I meet the $12K deductible. 12 months in a year, then it rolls over and I have to start all over again. My doctor found me an affordable medication when I told him I couldn’t afford a house payment every month to survive.
United States health insurance is the biggest legal scam in the world.
Trump is a shitstain but lowering/controlling prescription drug costs are low-hanging fruit that just about everyone but literal Big Pharma shills can agree on. Some people argue just to argue.
The United States have a real problem with that. For reference, I use the insulin Apidra as rapid-acting Insulin. In America, it would cost me 6 dollars per milliliter. I would use that in about 4 days, and as far as I know and my doctor told me, I need a pretty low amount of that stuff. Here inn germany, it costs me 11,29 dollars per 30 milliliters. So 15 times the amount of Insulin for the same price. And thats just the rapid-acting Insulin. As allready commented, there is way more equipment to pay for.
My ex-husband takes a drug that would cost out of pocket, about 15k a month. We still have insurance for it but that may change come the first of the year.
Then he will die a grisly death. That’s it. Nothing to be done.
We were advised to start a GFM and/or sell everything for a month of treatment so we could “cover the gap.”
Of course he refuses. He doesn’t want to die and leave us destitute.
IF IT DIDNT HAPPEN TO ME IT DOESNT EXIST!! NO I AM NOT AWARE OF THE EXISTENCE OF MILLIONS OF OTHER DIABETICS IN DIFFERENT FINANCIAL AND MEDICAL SITUATIONS THAN MY OWN! THATS DEEP STATE PROPAGANDA YOU FOOLS!!
if this idiot is only paying $50 (I assume USD), he is on the lowest dose injectable you can probably get…
I have not know a billion diabetics but the handful I have known **ALL** paid hundreds a month **WITH** insurance.
But none of that even matters.. is this fuckstick seriously trying to argue about having to pay less ? Typical goddamn Republican….
* Obamacare is evil and costs too much
* I’ll be damn if we will have that socialist **FREE** healthcare !
They don’t really care.. doubt they even listen to themselves.. they have been told to be mad so they decided they are.. about everything even if it would benefit them to agree with it.
I really want this bill to pass, but I still have people say to me, “well, someone is going to have to pay for it. The insulin company will still charge the same amount. The government will just end up raising my taxs to pay for it!”
i’m gonna pretend that this guy is mad at the fact that some people need to pay $1000 per month for insulin so i can continue trying to forget how shit the world is and return to living under my metaphorical rock
The most American part of this is that $35 per dose of insulin would still be higher than almost any other developed country. In the U.K, a dose of insulin costs around fifteen dollars.
Pharmacy intern here. Box of insulin pens usually costs between $300-$700. If a patient needs a larger dose of insulin, they are going to need more than box. We have some patients that get 3-6 boxes at a time. The cost adds up depending on how much you need. Walmart has low cost insulin that patients can buy for $26.88 but it requires more care and monitoring than the pens. Overall, insulin is expensive as fuck. Crazy thing is that the creator of insulin originally sold the patten for $1 because he wanted everyone to get free insulin but that’s not how it turned out to be.
Dabosy
My buddy at work pays about 700. With insurance. Not insulin but I have an inhaler that’s 400$ a month. Just to breath. All medication prices are out of touch with reality.
Must be nice to have such good insurance. Plus 35 is still less than 50-100, so you’ll get a deal too. SMH.
Spends 500$ a month on insurance so they can pay 50$ for insulin a month.
These are the same dolts that said “just go buy this generic insulin analog at Walmart for $25 a vial”. That won’t work for everyone, and when you’ve fucked around with cheap meds, you eventually find out. Now you owe a hospital $60k because you’ve been admitted for a few days with DKA.
“WHO is paying that much? I am a data set of one and I only pay $50! Therefore, everyone else must only pay 50! They cannot possibly have different insurance plans, different circumstances, or no insurance at all! I am not a complete DIPSHIT!”
Who needs to explain to that guy that “as much as $1000” includes such numbers as $50 and $100.
Problem isn’t always the insulin itself, often it’s the equipment necessary to test and administer that gets you.
I take medication for diabetes. It cost $990 per month. My insurance has a 12K deductible. They told me they would pay 80% after I meet the $12K deductible. 12 months in a year, then it rolls over and I have to start all over again. My doctor found me an affordable medication when I told him I couldn’t afford a house payment every month to survive.
United States health insurance is the biggest legal scam in the world.
America is literally in an abusive relationship and can’t comprehend what it’s like to not be in one.
It also depends on the state you live in. Like Texas has insulin cap at $25. My friend (not in Texas) paid $625 a month when he didn’t have insurance.
My cat’s insulin is $200/vial. She’s like 10 lbs though.
My dad pays $65 a dose…. One shot
Trump is a shitstain but lowering/controlling prescription drug costs are low-hanging fruit that just about everyone but literal Big Pharma shills can agree on. Some people argue just to argue.
Using my sense of maths, $35 is still less than $50, so why is he mad?
The United States have a real problem with that. For reference, I use the insulin Apidra as rapid-acting Insulin. In America, it would cost me 6 dollars per milliliter. I would use that in about 4 days, and as far as I know and my doctor told me, I need a pretty low amount of that stuff. Here inn germany, it costs me 11,29 dollars per 30 milliliters. So 15 times the amount of Insulin for the same price. And thats just the rapid-acting Insulin. As allready commented, there is way more equipment to pay for.
My ex-husband takes a drug that would cost out of pocket, about 15k a month. We still have insurance for it but that may change come the first of the year.
Then he will die a grisly death. That’s it. Nothing to be done.
We were advised to start a GFM and/or sell everything for a month of treatment so we could “cover the gap.”
Of course he refuses. He doesn’t want to die and leave us destitute.
The American medical system is a vampire.
IF IT DIDNT HAPPEN TO ME IT DOESNT EXIST!! NO I AM NOT AWARE OF THE EXISTENCE OF MILLIONS OF OTHER DIABETICS IN DIFFERENT FINANCIAL AND MEDICAL SITUATIONS THAN MY OWN! THATS DEEP STATE PROPAGANDA YOU FOOLS!!
Is this some joke im too norwegian to understand?
if this idiot is only paying $50 (I assume USD), he is on the lowest dose injectable you can probably get…
I have not know a billion diabetics but the handful I have known **ALL** paid hundreds a month **WITH** insurance.
But none of that even matters.. is this fuckstick seriously trying to argue about having to pay less ? Typical goddamn Republican….
* Obamacare is evil and costs too much
* I’ll be damn if we will have that socialist **FREE** healthcare !
They don’t really care.. doubt they even listen to themselves.. they have been told to be mad so they decided they are.. about everything even if it would benefit them to agree with it.
I really want this bill to pass, but I still have people say to me, “well, someone is going to have to pay for it. The insulin company will still charge the same amount. The government will just end up raising my taxs to pay for it!”
My grandma who cannot afford to survive without her health insurance. That’s who
“as much as”. He didn’t say EVERY American is paying that much.
What does the World Health Organization have to do with this?
Funny how much that person wants precise data, but can’t give out precise data when making that comment.
Claiming the max payed per month is 50 and 100 usd.
So which is it. Maximum is one number. And one mentioned is double the other.
It’s still hard to believe Americans have to pay for insulin, that’s got to suck.
i’m gonna pretend that this guy is mad at the fact that some people need to pay $1000 per month for insulin so i can continue trying to forget how shit the world is and return to living under my metaphorical rock
The most American part of this is that $35 per dose of insulin would still be higher than almost any other developed country. In the U.K, a dose of insulin costs around fifteen dollars.
If it doesn’t happen to me it’s not real!
“This does not affect me intimately, so how is this a problem?”
– Conservatives
Some people on earth go hungry.
This idiot: that’s not TrUe, I eat every day. Hunger is not real, I haven’t missed eating ever in my life…
SMH… the purpose is to go against liberal comments, without any thought as to why.
Pharmacy intern here. Box of insulin pens usually costs between $300-$700. If a patient needs a larger dose of insulin, they are going to need more than box. We have some patients that get 3-6 boxes at a time. The cost adds up depending on how much you need. Walmart has low cost insulin that patients can buy for $26.88 but it requires more care and monitoring than the pens. Overall, insulin is expensive as fuck. Crazy thing is that the creator of insulin originally sold the patten for $1 because he wanted everyone to get free insulin but that’s not how it turned out to be.