I'll chime in with my anecdata on US health insurance: My SO has a condition that requires a pill to help out with. My SO has some trouble working regular hour

I'll chime in with my anecdata on US health insurance: My SO has a condition that requires a pill to help out with. My SO has some trouble working regular hours due to this condition and takes one pill per day. Depending on the insurance, we have paid between $1 and $5 per pill in the past. This particular chemical is a part of horse feed. Like, how we just put Vitamin D in Milk, or Iodine in Salt; they put this chemical in horse feed. It does not change the cost of the horse feed appreciably, just like with human additives. I was once offered a job. When we dug into the insurance that the job had, it would have cost us ~$100 per pill, or ~$3k/mo. It was an otherwise dream job, perfect for me. But a ~$36k/year increase in our yearly cost of living. We had to turn the job down, of course. For a substance that they put in horse feed for basically free. The last time that I posted this issue on HN, a VERY kind person pointed me to a way to buy this chemical online and in bulk. It comes to your door in volumes of about ~$100 per CUBIC METER. They ship by volume, not weight. US Healthcare is totally, completely, utterly, broken.