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Make your own meds at home? What could POSSIBLY go wrong?

• toomuchtodo 9y ago
  You could die. Which could also happen if you can't afford the medication regardless.
  • refurb 9y ago
    Pretty much every pharmaceutical manufacturer has a free product program for patients who can't afford (or their insurance company won't pay for) the drug. I'd rather go that route than start a lab in my garage.
    • toomuchtodo 9y ago
      Then why are people having to go without prescription medication they can't afford? EDIT: citations "Millions of adults skip medications due to their high cost Howard LeWine, M.D." https://www.health.harvard.edu/blog/millions-skip-medications-due-to-their-high-cost-201501307673 https://www.health.harvard.edu/blog/millions-skip-medication... "Almost 1 in 10 Americans Can't Afford Medications Says CDC" http://www.renalandurologynews.com/news/cdc-americans-can-not-afford-medications-eight-percent/article/395374/ http://www.renalandurologynews.com/news/cdc-americans-can-no... "Most Say They Can Afford Their Prescription Drugs, But One in Four Say Paying is Difficult, Including More Than Four in Ten People Who are Sick" https://www.kff.org/health-costs/press-release/most-say-they-can-afford-their-prescription-drugs-but-one-in-four-say-paying-is-difficult-and-more-than-four-in-ten-for-people-who-are-sick/ https://www.kff.org/health-costs/press-release/most-say-they... "Even the Insured Often Can't Afford Their Medical Bills" https://www.theatlantic.com/business/archive/2017/06/medical-bills/530679/ https://www.theatlantic.com/business/archive/2017/06/medical...
      • KekDemaga 9y ago
        Have any examples of deaths? Should be thousands available.
        • mustacheemperor 9y ago
          Sure, here's 45,000. Did you actually Google your snarky response before calling bingo? https://news.harvard.edu/gazette/story/2009/09/new-study-finds-45000-deaths-annually-linked-to-lack-of-health-coverage/ https://news.harvard.edu/gazette/story/2009/09/new-study-fin...
          • KekDemaga 9y ago
            45,000!?! you should easily be able to point out say 10 specific cases where lack of access to a drug killed someone in the last year right?
            • PhasmaFelis 9y ago
              45,000 is greater than 10. One for the "never thought I would actually have to say this" list.
              • KekDemaga 9y ago
                Certainly 10 specific cases would be an easy find right? Seriously go look. You can't find them. Studies like this claim cases like "well if we found this cancer earlier" but I'm looking for "he couldn't afford this drug so he died". Should be millions of them according to the rhetoric.
                • PhasmaFelis 9y ago
                  > Studies like this claim cases like "well if we found this cancer earlier" but I'm looking for "he couldn't afford this drug so he died". Why do you think that first group doesn't matter? You're hunting for cases where a person with an acute condition fell down and died on the spot because money-grubbing doctors callously refused to give them medicine. That doesn't usually happen in the US, because hospitals are required to administer emergency care without advance payment. That doesn't help the tens of thousands of people who have to choose between getting a checkup and paying the rent, or the checkup doc refers them to a specialist that costs $10,000, or they feel shitty after an accident but they know the bill for the emergency room visit will bankrupt them; so they gamble that it'll get better on its own, and by the time it's clear that it won't, it's too late for emergency care to save them.
      • refurb 9y ago
        Not sure. Maybe they don't know about the programs?
        • PhasmaFelis 9y ago
          Or maybe you're overstated the generosity of drug manufacturers.
          • refurb 9y ago
            Did you take a look at the manufacturer program criteria? I have.
    • brightsize 9y ago
      One such: https://www.gskforyou.com/ https://www.gskforyou.com/
    • fjsolwmv 9y ago
      You have to sell your garage and everything else before you qualify for free meds.
      • refurb 9y ago
        Actually, the income cut offs are quite high. For Novartis, if a family of two makes less than $150K and has no insurance, they get free drug.
        • fjsolwmv 9y ago
          $100K,but still that's pretty high if they promise of fulfilled. https://www.pharma.us.novartis.com/our-products/patient-assistance/patient-assistance-foundation-enrollment https://www.pharma.us.novartis.com/our-products/patient-assi...
• mattmaroon 9y ago
  Well, there is a large segment of the population that thinks vinegar and various herbs are medicine so for them not much at least.