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Medical care, especially drugs, greatly increasing in price for old. 2/3rds of over 65 have at least one cintinuing prescription.
by peter303 8y ago
Medical care, especially drugs, greatly increasing in price for old. 2/3rds of over 65 have at least one cintinuing prescription.
- pkaye 8y agoNot all prescriptions are for expensive medicines. I'd say many of them are generic drugs which cost pennies per day.
- organsnyder 8y agoIn many cases, drug companies come up with ways to keep prices high. For instance, asthma drugs are reconfigured with different delivery mechanisms that allow them to get new patents for what are essentially long-ago-discovered drugs. For instance, the CFC ban in 2008 caused generic albuterol to go off the market: https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/unlikely-victims-of-banning-cfcs/ https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/unlikely-victims-...
- pkaye 8y agoOther than the CFC ban, in most of those cases, the old medicine is still fine to use.
- drunken-serval 8y agoI can't use albuterol due to side-effects. The CFC ban caused the medication I used to disappear completely. The alternative is half as effective.
- scarface74 8y agoThe work around I used when my asthma was worse to save money waa to use a nebulizer. The albuterol tubes were cheap.
- nimish 8y ago> Although the FDA advisory committee recognized that the expenses would go up, Hendeles says, it also believed that the companies would help defray the added costs for individuals. If that's the naïveté of the officials who police the health industry, I'm not surprised that healthcare costs have exploded. Why bother competing when you can have your competition ruled illegal and the ensuing oligopoly allowed with a pinky-swear to not fuck over patients?