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All-In

(312 posts)
Sat Jun 10, 2017, 02:11 PM Jun 2017

Everyone Understands We Are Being Robbed Right?

My wife's prescription cost under $10 overseas for the same bottle by the same manufacturer that costs over $100 here.

This is only one example. Imagine how much cheaper healthcare would be if the "owners" weren't profiting on every single pill, test, or procedure? The list goes on, and on, and on. What we pay for "service" compared to the rest of the world for better service is sickening. Cable, phone, internet etc.

We are being robbed by monopolies. And worst thing is these monopolies don't pay squat in corporate income tax, and their shareholders don't pay squat, even if they cash in their dividends. Capital gains versus income.

We, us working fools are being robbed every time we turn around.

Agree?

What can we do about it?

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sweetapogee

(1,168 posts)
1. what we can do about it is
Sat Jun 10, 2017, 02:19 PM
Jun 2017

move to the country with the least expensive prescription drugs. Let the US suffer without us.

onethatcares

(16,131 posts)
4. i don't think that can happen
Sat Jun 10, 2017, 02:40 PM
Jun 2017

there are too many of us that have roots here. Family, jobs, homes, land and all of that. The problem is, our representatives have a second stream of income that has nothing to do with what they are supposed to be doing for us.

What we have to do is become citizens and force our reps to honor our wishes, not the Koch bros, or the pharma conglomerate.

But too many of us are sweating out eating day to day to hit the streets in protest.

They got us right where they want us........Don't even get me going on the 'rent it society"

 

TheDebbieDee

(11,119 posts)
5. What we need are Congressmen and Senators that will not shirk their responsibilites
Sat Jun 10, 2017, 03:59 PM
Jun 2017

of regulating and legislating controls over industries...

30 years of PAC money in our political campaigns have resulted in Congressmen and Senators who won't question this industry and won't regulate that industry.

A couple of months ago, my Sen Claire McCaskill sent out a tweet complaining about the high prices of prescription drugs. I replied to her tweet that she was one of the 100 people that Americans elected to DO SOMETHING about it!

mahatmakanejeeves

(56,886 posts)
6. "... their shareholders don't pay squat, even if they cash in their dividends."
Sat Jun 10, 2017, 04:02 PM
Jun 2017

I am guessing you do not own stock. Dividends are taxable. Companies send out a 1099-DIV in January. Dividends are reported on Form 1040 Schedule B.

https://www.irs.gov/pub/irs-pdf/f1040sb.pdf

MurrayDelph

(5,279 posts)
8. I feel your pain
Sat Jun 10, 2017, 04:30 PM
Jun 2017

(literally).

There is a topical NSAID gel I use, that my old insurance (before it went out of business thanks to Marco Rubio bankrupting the health co-ops) used to cover with *only* a $50 co-pay at Costco.

They sell it on the shelves (no prescription required) in Canada for between $12 and $18 *Canadian*, depending on size.

(Luckily for me, I live in northern Oregon, and can go visit fairly easily).

DFW

(54,050 posts)
11. Go to, and film, town halls wherever you hear of one being held, maybe?
Sat Jun 10, 2017, 08:04 PM
Jun 2017

That idiot from Idaho would never have made the Republican Party such a laughing stock with his "nobody ever died from a lack of access to health care" if that town hall hadn't been filmed, the audience jeering, and the guy's stupid statement being seen around the world. Now it is (or should be) a part of the media arsenal of EVERY Democrat challenging an incumbent Republican member of the House (or trying for an empty/up-for-grabs seat).

MiddleClass

(888 posts)
12. Big Pharma is ripping Americans off
Sat Jun 10, 2017, 08:46 PM
Jun 2017

After 13 years in the job I got MS, my Betaseron was 1850 dollars, a month, but my co-pay was only 10 dollars.

Fast forward seven years, my company finally got me out. Medicare did not have prescription drug coverage. Within five years. I was a quadriplegic, when George Bush passed this prescription drug bill for Medicare the cost of my drug Avonex (replacement for Betaseron) was 768 dollars a month, which I couldn't afford and then it went up to 1826 dollars a month with Medicare paying 200 and me paying the rest.

Obviously, I still could not afford it.

So now I still can't afford the drug that was slowing down the progression of my disease. I just hope someone else doesn't go through what I did. This should change.

The only way is to get money out of politics

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