Yuritopiaposadism [none/use name]
ChapotraphouseSource:
https://abcnews.com/US/wisconsin-man-dies-after-inhaler-cost-jumps-500/story?id=118422131
I'm reminded of seeing a bunch of Advair ads in magazines. (Older man using a bubble stick with older women and young girl; "More bubbles by Grandpa, more air by Advair.") And this sort of pitch is everywhere in pharmaceutical ads. The ethos of "This is the life you'll be able to live if you only buy our product", but it's not just a superficially deniable illusion like most advertised consumption, but an actual reality for people that need the inelastic good of the pharmaceuticals. The implicit assertion is "We have our hand on the lever of your life" and "You depend on us for your ability to live".
Direct-to-consumer pharmaceutical advertising is one of the most uniquely fucked up things about this country. Intellectual property enforcement on lifesaving medicines is social murder.
Four Thieves did a couple high-impact DIY guides; I wonder if someone else has done one for inhalers.
“This is a based Christian nation” they say but actual sin like this is rewarded and celebrated.
A little bit unrelated, but didn’t Marx once comment on how western “culture” is hypocritically guilty of everything they slander Jews with in antisemitic tropes?
"christian nation"
full of Usury
What would Jesus do
This shit is so bleak
Hi European here , I got a lot of meds and issues , just got my inhalers and epipen again among other things. Mutual aid if anyone is in need. Trade is also interesting.
Meanwhile, in evil communist Cuba
(for context, that woman is a volunteer EMT 9/11 first responder with chronic respiratory problems who couldn't get proper healthcare in the States)
china is going to see mass migration from the west, mark my words
Why would they want that?
they won't have a choice, only responses
I found a YouTube link in your comment. Here are links to the same video on alternative frontends that protect your privacy:
Even $66 is too much and I assume that's after they milked him for some type of insurance.
Even $1 would be too much for life saving medicine.
For real. This young man had decades of value left in him. Real value, not the shit bosses extract. Hands helping a person that fell, a kind word of support to a friend, a meal shared with the less fortunate. I could go on. For years. Even if he went out and got killed in a car accident the next day the sunk cost is fucking worth it to save him today.
And they killed him because that money today was worth more than a lifetime of his tomorrows. I really fucking hate the healthcare industry lmao, goddamned vampires
I sometimes wish God revealed himself because I want these monsters to actually ask themselves “is a little more temporary pleasure really worth an eternity of hell?”
I pay like 10 euro for my inhaler out of pocket and it lasts me a few months and that's only because I don't have the optional extra insurance (that's also like 15 euro a month), I have absolutely no idea how americans aren't burning shit down.
We aren't burning shit down mostly I think because we don't want to get murdered by police or go to prison for life. For most people in the US you feel like you're being watched and listened to every second, and it's rare an officer would be charged with a crime if they wanted to kill us. Right now it seems easier to suffer and watch our family get ill and die unnecessarily than kill yourself doing some adventurism, most people around here probably agree shit is fucked up but they are afraid of losing their job and insurance if they have it so they don't step out of line.
People probably were able to protest and burn a few things down in 2020 because jobs and schools were closed, a lot of people stopped paying rent where I was, there wasn't the same threat of your life being destroyed for missing work at the time.
Propaganda. They tell us taxes will be much higher and it takes months to see a doctor.
it takes months to see a doctor anyway!
: “Yeah, but at least It’s done in a freedomy way! You see, it’s my business so it’s my choice! Stop oppressing me with your ‘expectations’, no one owes you anything!”
