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athousanderrors) wrote2019-08-06 09:40 pm
athousanderrors) wrote2019-08-06 09:40 pm
kittydesade:wetwareproblem:transientgender:tinyhatonapumpkin:I wonder if Americans realize how much.
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kittydesade:
wetwareproblem:
transientgender:
tinyhatonapumpkin:
I wonder if Americans realize how much their healthcare costs are impacting other countries. Like you keep hearing about people going to Canada or Mexico to buy insulin bc they can’t afford it in USA, and then usually people leave the discussion at that.
But like…. Border towns in Canada (and I’d imagine in Mexico also) are starting to suffer insulin shortages bc of the sheer number of Americans going across the border to buy insulin.
Canada’s population is much smaller than USA’s. We can’t keep up with demand. Especially bc Americans are going in groups, big caravans to buy the insulin all at once. Depleting our stores leaving barely any left for Canadians.
Like I’m not being heartless, I don’t want American diabetics to suffer, I WANT them to have access to insulin. I’m just pointing out that this is quickly becoming an international crisis. If this keeps up, many fear that Canada won’t be able to continue having cheap insulin bc scarcity drives up prices. Which will not only worsen the problem for Americans, but will also screw over Canadians in the process (our healthcare coverage doesn’t cover medications btw!)
And as Canadians we don’t have a say in the factors that led to the problem in the first place. We can’t vote for politicians that would do something about the problem, we can’t do any political or social action in USA to fix it, we’re just. Getting screwed with no say in it!
And insulin was fucking invented here for fucks sakes!
I was straight up told by my pharmacist to keep an extra epipen on hand, bc shortages had been happening lately as a result of americans coming up to buy them.
Reminder that this is now the US Department of Health and Human Services’s official policy on how to deal with price gouging in the US.
They’re fine with corporate greed killing people, as long as those people aren’t voters.
They’re fine with killing voters too, honestly.
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kittydesade:
wetwareproblem:
transientgender:
tinyhatonapumpkin:
I wonder if Americans realize how much their healthcare costs are impacting other countries. Like you keep hearing about people going to Canada or Mexico to buy insulin bc they can’t afford it in USA, and then usually people leave the discussion at that.
But like…. Border towns in Canada (and I’d imagine in Mexico also) are starting to suffer insulin shortages bc of the sheer number of Americans going across the border to buy insulin.
Canada’s population is much smaller than USA’s. We can’t keep up with demand. Especially bc Americans are going in groups, big caravans to buy the insulin all at once. Depleting our stores leaving barely any left for Canadians.
Like I’m not being heartless, I don’t want American diabetics to suffer, I WANT them to have access to insulin. I’m just pointing out that this is quickly becoming an international crisis. If this keeps up, many fear that Canada won’t be able to continue having cheap insulin bc scarcity drives up prices. Which will not only worsen the problem for Americans, but will also screw over Canadians in the process (our healthcare coverage doesn’t cover medications btw!)
And as Canadians we don’t have a say in the factors that led to the problem in the first place. We can’t vote for politicians that would do something about the problem, we can’t do any political or social action in USA to fix it, we’re just. Getting screwed with no say in it!
And insulin was fucking invented here for fucks sakes!
I was straight up told by my pharmacist to keep an extra epipen on hand, bc shortages had been happening lately as a result of americans coming up to buy them.
Reminder that this is now the US Department of Health and Human Services’s official policy on how to deal with price gouging in the US.
They’re fine with corporate greed killing people, as long as those people aren’t voters.
They’re fine with killing voters too, honestly.
(Your picture was not posted)