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American health care: where the new standard of excellence is 80% correct limb amputation
On the plus side, I had the choice between my kid's prescription this month! It was a decision between paying $600 now, or waiting until June for the generic for only $150.
I think we can all agree that the systems here are fucked, but why did we have to blow up every-fucking-thing else up?
We can't even go refugee because we're god-damned pariahs.
and the generic will be more like $250 because it was manufactured overseas.
Our neighbor goes to Canada every year to buy a years worth of medication because its much cheaper. I suggested my mom do that to save money on her Eliquis, but shes convinced that foreign drugs come from dirty factories, and probably laced with Fentanyl. From Canada.
The Conservative Propaganda Machine is powerful. I have to talk her off some ridiculous Conservative cliff every time she goes on the Internet.
She loves clickbait, the more misleading the headline the better. Three years ago she read a clickbait headline about about Cracker Barrel closing, and when i read it, they were closing a couple stores somewhere. Now, whenever we pass a Cracker Barrel, she either reminds me they are going out of business, or she wonders when they are going to be closing their stores. I remind her that they arent going out of business, but she just says she read it, and its true. All from a misleading clickbait headline from years ago.
"If what you read was true mom, why have we been having this conversation about them going out of business for 5 years?"
God-fucking-dammit this is all so wrong. My empathy.
What? No, that's not true.
A bit hyperbolic, I'll admit - though I'm in no position to uproot my family and move anywhere.
"What's the problem, you have a redundant back up."
"Yeah, but the backup has bone cancer, you idiot!"
"Lol, malpractice will buy you a prosthetic. My bad, bro. Look, I need to bail, I'm going to Costa Rica for the holidays! Later! YOLO!"