The Soaring Cost of a Simple Breath
Oct. 11th, 2013 10:49 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
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This article is too much of a hassle to copy and paste, so I'm not going to bother. The long and the short of is that Americans pay waaaaay too much for medicines, and Ana's $125 inhalers would only cost about $20 overseas. The rich keep getting richer, don't they?
This article is too much of a hassle to copy and paste, so I'm not going to bother. The long and the short of is that Americans pay waaaaay too much for medicines, and Ana's $125 inhalers would only cost about $20 overseas. The rich keep getting richer, don't they?
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Date: 2013-10-13 05:16 pm (UTC)Not quite true. Asthma isn't one of the conditions for which adults get free prescriptions (though children do, so Ana's inhalers would cost you absolutely nothing here). Dave's inhalers would cost the standard charge for any prescription (currently £7.85) if he bought them singly. In fact we both use a prescription pre-payment certificate, which covers all our prescriptions for £104 a year.
A few years ago, on holiday in Tunisia, he ran out, and bought some there at what amounted to about £1 each.
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Date: 2013-10-14 07:45 pm (UTC)