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Worse is when they are not even asked to pay!

That's just SAD... and super cruel.

The sad truth...

SO TRUE!! We no longer have free lunches at our school, and it’s not cheap! (Although the lunches at our school are good)

wtf is this actually happening over in America...

I think this depends on the celeb.

Dial that back JUST a bit. What we LEARNED?? No, we experienced it, and we are whitewashing the whole affair so we don't need to learn anything. Just because you can demonstrate and prove something, has no connection to us necessarily learning it.

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bUt MeH rIgHts! Gods I hate people sometimes.

This is just a simple fact.

A rent payment is not a credit transaction. Try to understand the difference. The real kicker is that you might think paying off a debt would improve a persons credit worthiness ie. I borrowed money and then paid it back before I said I would. Nope, closing a credit line by paying it off lowers your credit rating. Now that is bass ackwards.

Let's all thank the Supreme Court and Citizens United. I'll believe "corporations are people, too" [Mitt Romney] when a corporation gets sentenced to death in Texas.

Someone posted a photo of their itemised maternity bill from a US hospital on another forum a while back-it included a $50 charge for "skin to skin care." Skin to skin is literally putting the naked baby onto the mother or father's bare chest. It's meant to help with temperature regulation, and is alleged to help soothe the baby immediately after birth, but its not a medical procedure. Mum picks up the baby, puts it on her chest, and the hospital charges $50 for a midwife to watch? It's utterly ludicrous. The American healthcare system is beyond a joke.

So let's do it.

But they give "thoughts and prayers" every time something happens! Isn't that enough!?!

I get my diabetes medication free. After reading all this stuff, I'm so glad I was born in the UK. It's certainly not perfect, but 1000x better than living in the 'Land of the free'.

Richest country, that spends more money on healthcare per capita than any other country but has third world coverage. So universal healthcare could be cheaper and cover everyone.

I think he died in 2017-his death was reported in the British media at the time because there was discussion about Trump's plans for healthcare, and how the UK should be worried because our government was deliberately underfunding healthcare. There have been other diabetes related deaths since in USA where people couldn't afford insulin, a drug which can be made extremely cheaply. https://gh.bmj.com/content/3/5/e000850 The authors of this paper show that if people were charged only the production costs of insulin, depending on the type of insulin they needed, the cost for an annual supply of the drug is between $77 and $133 per year. Pharmaceutical companies are charging obscene prices.

And half the voting populous thinks this is the right way for things to be.

Someone once said that the US is great because they have the best Doctors etc. another one said „what good does it do to have the best doctors, if only 1% of the population can afford treatment by these doctors“? And I love that question.

Diabetic Americans should apply for a refugee status in other countries. Being denied of commonly used medical services for the reason of being poor is life-threatening discrimination.

"Human insulin has an estimated production cost of US$2.28–3.37 per 1000 unit vial [22]. Allowing for 30% profit, a year’s supply for someone who takes 40 units per day should cost less than US$71 per year." ('Production costs and potential prices for biosimilars of human insulin and insulin analogues'; Dzintars Gotham, Melissa J Barber, Andrew Hill, https://gh.bmj.com/content/3/5/e000850)

"Land of the free" yet it costs thousands a month to live... doesn't sound very free

Yes, but all Congressional people get their care free of charge. With the GOP bumbling things, why should they care about anyone else except their rich buddies?

For some in the US, Epipens are upwards of a $1000.00. If you have a kid, they have to have an extra set for school.

America is a sh ithole country.

I was born and lived in the USA until I was 53, I have type 2. I Know the high cost of managing it in the USA. I moved to Sweden and was shocked and had to ask the pharmacist to repeat what she said. All diabetic medicine and supplies are free here. I even get my test strips for free. I have learned that most medicine even when paying full price is affordable.

That's really sad. I dont understand their medical side of things. Like people not wanting ambulances because they can't afford it or paramedics having to make sure people get brought to the right hospital for their insurance to cover costs. Jeez lads, what a serious harsh reality people in America have to live with, especially for such a wealthy country

Absolutely disgusting

$16 in india. Just saying.

This is utterly barbaric. How can you even have the cheek to call yourself a first world Country, America?

America, as a country, is majorly backward. Run by absolute idiots who bully and brainwash the masses into their way of "thinking". Theres a reason the average i.q. is as low as the average weight is high.

The sad thing is, he probably made too much money to qualify for Medicaid, the federal/state funded US insurance for people with limited incomes. Most states (46/50) cover insulin. On Medicaid, insulin is usually under $35 (USD) per month or even free. They like to vilify people on public assistance, but the way the US government works makes it so difficult for people in the lower/middle classes to function that it doesn't pay to do honest work.

lower👏prices👏of👏insulin👏and👏other👏medications👏

Wow. Glad I don't live in America

Insulin in Australia is subsidised by the Government and cost $6.94 per script.

Rich in what? How not to care about anyone but yourself?

In my country, I have to pay almost 15% of my wage into health insurance. That is a lot of money. And it doesnt even cover glasses or most dental work. It is still a thousand times better than living in the world's largest banana republic.

Someone I knew died this exact same way for the exact same reason.

There are programs for people to get medicine, especially for life threatening illnesses, for free. But finding and accessing them is hard

But our brilliant senators and representatives are more concerned with with drag queen story time and so-called "grooming," that's the most serious concern.

If people will die without it, why is it not free?