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diebetic here - always vote and never vote republican
they want to kill you and rob your corpse. period
Also, if you’re 65 or older, as part of the Inflation Reduction Act, the shingles vaccine is now available at no cost. 
In 2022, it cost around $400. 
Please tell your parents or grandparents. >

My sister got the latest shingles vax last year at CVS for free and she wasn’t 65 >

That’s awesome! It should be free everywhere for everyone. >

It's not free, the cost is just shifted to premiums. 
Drug prices are messed up due to how PBMs negotiate rebates >

Why isn't this for everyone? >

Which is funny because the anti-vax crowd, which is now largely Republicans, are constantly posting “you’ll make the Covid vaccine free but not insulin or cancer drugs?!?!?” as if it’s some sort of conspiracy, directly after voting for the people who explicitly make that the case >

Also “Why do paramedics give these addicts free Narcon, but I can’t afford insulin!!” >

I guess they don't know how much an ambulance ride costs >

Or that in a lifesaving situation they would also receive “free” insulin from paramedics. >

So.. just call the paramedics everyday when your blood sugar got too high? >

Doctors, Nurses, the ambulance staff, and hospitals will save your life regardless of your ability to pay. You'll just have to pay thousands of dollars afterwards. >

Um... duh.. >

Insulin should be free. Diabetics need it to live. >

All healthcare should be free. >

Right...that's what government is for, to provide for its people. >

There is no government without the people. They seem to be forgetting that. >

They didn't forget, they just have a different definition of people. >

Try getting therapy or counseling for depression and and anxiety it’s 4 to 500.00 dollars an hour >

Where do you live that it’s so high? My ex is a therapist and charges 60$ an hour for uninsured. Then splits that with her practice. >

Anything remotely that affordable near me has a 6 month wait-list, especially for men. >

Pardon my ignorance but do therapists charge differently for men vs. women? Or only take fewer men as patients? >


do therapists charge differently for men vs. women?

I assume that would be quite illegal unless they can prove that they spend more hours/resources for men vs women. >

Not sure about the legality of charging differently, but around me, many therapists advertise that they only accept women as clients, which seems to be ok from a legal standpoint. >

Why only seniors?
American healthcare system is a dystopia. >


Why only seniors?

Because the GOP wouldn't support it for anyone else. >

Even if you’re a senior who benefits from this, how can you think this is OK and support the gop? >


Even if you’re a senior who benefits from this, how can you think this is OK and support the gop?

May I introduce you to the Church of Fuck You Got Mine? >

“But, I worked for this. I paid into it my whole life!!  Why should the government give this to people who didn’t work for it???”
—The usual explanation. >

Meanwhile, almost all senior citizens on Medicare get more out of it than they paid in, but boy oh boy, don't try to point that out to them. >

It's progress, but it is admittedly frustrating to see only the seniors benefit when this could be benefitting people under 65.
I get that it's the GOP's fault for this, but it's infuriating all the same. >

Trump announced it as an election bribe/policy but then he lost.  Republicans then slow walked the relevant legislation until it finally got passed as part of budget reconciliation which then took a while to come into effect. >

I love the irony of this quote from the link that guy you replied to provided:

Trump also used the announcement to disparage former Vice President Joe Biden, his likely 2020 Democratic opponent, claiming that "Sleepy Joe can't do this, that I can tell you."

Looks like "Sleepy Joe" came through where Trump did not, yet again. The Democrats are always there to clean up the mess the Republicans leave them when they're voted out of office. >

Regular insulin should be free in the United States. >

Regular insulin is antique shit insulin. Lispro insulin (which was introduced almost thirty years ago) should be free. >

Sure. I just think it's easier to justify making the cheapest drugs for free. 
Honestly, the federal government should contract directly with manufacturers to mass produce a number of vital drugs using economy of scale to save costs and prevent recurrent hospitalizations. Insulin, naloxone, epi-pens are a few examples. >

I just mean regular insulin sucks; there's good reason why it's rarely (if ever) prescribed to new diabetics anywhere in the world. The "new" thirty year old insulin just dramatically improves our quality of life. 
Humalog (lispro) is made on a pretty big scale already, and they couldn't really increase that as the FDA has a 1-month expiration on most insulins (even though it lasts 6-ish months in the fridge) so they couldn't stockpile it. 
Last I checked, lispro insulin cost the manufacturers around $3 USD to produce a vial (which is a 3-5 week supply for many diabetics), despite the pharmacies charging 50-100x that price for it.