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In reply to the discussion: This is an awkward thing to post [View all]IbogaProject
(3,784 posts)The thing is health care has gone AWOL from its prime directive. It is now about profit, which the market says must grow. In 1999 insulin was less than $50 a bottle, I think even less. It was?stable in price from 1982 upto around 1999. Then during the Bush administration the price jumped to $300 for same amount of insulin and the newer formulations are often weaker and require more.
The AMA kept the number of Medical school seats below what our country needs. We end up poaching doctors from other countries. This has made medicine a type of natural1prp3rrtmonoloply. These huge corporate medical providers are crowding out independent ones.
I will give an example of a typical millennial with healthcare, I'm Gen X but a younger friend got hit by a car and he got stuck in a catch-22 where he couldnt sue or get care with out an MRI on his knee. Price (2010) $800, for someone living hand to mouth.
Eppipens skyrocked in cost after Senator Manchin's daughter became ceo of a pharma corp and jacked the price over ten fold higher.
And finally our food has been declining in nutritional quality as minerals have been depleted from our farmlands.
Luigi while raised affluent may have bones much weaker than someone born a few decades before him.
I bet he had trouble getting adequate pain medicine. They are so stingy due to regulations which make Doctors reluctant to ever write someone a second script. I've had two breaks requiring metal and screws. It was close to impossible to get meds once out of the hospital.