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They can afford prescription painkillers through medicaire and medicaid. If you set aside your personal anecdote and look at the actual data, it is a real thing
by ghostcluster 8y ago
They can afford prescription painkillers through medicaire and medicaid. If you set aside your personal anecdote and look at the actual data, it is a real thing that is happening in the US: https://www.propublica.org/article/extreme-use-of-painkillers-and-doctor-shopping-plague-medicare https://www.propublica.org/article/extreme-use-of-painkiller...
- opencl 8y agoYou were specifically referring to people with no jobs collecting disability benefits. I certainly agree that people obtaining these drugs when they don't need them through insurance/medicare/medicaid is a problem.
- ghostcluster 8y agomedicaid also applies to the working poor, and it has been recently expanded to cover a larger demographic in many states.
- opencl 8y agoThis isn't a "government giving poor people money" problem, it's a "doctors writing inappropriate prescriptions" problem that is unrelated to the source of funding and clearly happens with private insurance as well. Your post that I was replying to was also very specifically NOT about the working poor, but about jobless people on disability having a "lack of purpose".