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Essentially the instructions and tools to repair your own body are restricted and only accessible to those who can afford to pay for the health care systems pro
by fnordpiglet 2y ago
Essentially the instructions and tools to repair your own body are restricted and only accessible to those who can afford to pay for the health care systems processes. Have an obvious infection? Spend a ton of money going to a doctor to get a prescription to give to a pharmacy to dispense at highly marked up substance that’s easy to manufacturer at a tiny unit cost. You had no right to cure your own infection. You had to pay dozens of middle men for something straight forward.
I’d note that in most of the world you would just go buy the antibiotics directly from a pharmacy for almost nothing.
Now - I’m not saying self medicating with antibiotics is either good for you or the world, I’m saying at least in the US, you don’t have that right.
- mnau 2y agoPlease stop trying to co-opt established term for your pet cause.
- MobiusHorizons 2y agoBelieve me, I agree that this is a problem. I have lived in other countries, and have seen how broken certain aspects of US healthcare are especially with regards to cost. These problems are just totally different than “right to repair” if in no other way than that the legal solutions would be completely different. For example any right to repair legislation would have no bearing on drug prices.
- grayhatter 2y agoIf it was easier to get the federal approval required to produce medications wouldn't that lower the cost of producing those medications?
- wpietri 2y agoThat's some very careful cherry picking you've done there with your example. Maybe next time you're in a pharmacy you'll take a look at the aisles and aisles of over-the-counter medicines and devices available and do some thinking about your belief that "instructions and tools to repair your own body are restricted and only accessible to those who can afford to pay for the health care systems processes".
- grayhatter 2y agoI don't understand what you're trying to say, because there are low potency options that are available over the counter, that means the most effective treatments are correctly access restricted? Can you name an over the counter antibiotic that successfully treats a staph infection? or strep throat? or sinus infection?
- wpietri 2y agoI am saying his cherry-picking of antibiotics specifically while he make dramatic claims is ignoring all of the over-the-counter mediation sold in the pharmacy. There are quite a lot of illnesses one can treat without ever talking to a doctor. I don't know what other people's ratios are, but my use of OTC medication and "tools" is maybe 10x more frequent than stuff that's gatekept by a doctor. He is also ignoring the reasons that we have ended up with this system. Some of them are kind of dumb, but some of them are about valid problems. That's very different than what "right to repair" is fighting, which is mostly about exploitative companies trying to maximize revenue at the expense of their customers. [Edit: misunderstood who replied; correcting pronouns]
- pennybanks 2y agoits kind of wild your trying to create sides in this fake debate and then somehow trying to side with repairing electronics over peoples health? why though lol, do you hate sick people? or just have no empathy for people in general? who cares about technicality and semantics and whois using whos catch phrase better... we should be discussing an issue far more important, like so much more important its funny to even compare. then being able to switch your iphone battery out.
- wpietri 2y agoI have no idea why you take any of that away from what I wrote. I am in favor of both repairing electronics and people's health. I'm just saying that the right-to-repair framing for medical stuff is not a great way to look at it.