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I did a quick search, and it seems that the full price of generic version of this inhaler in Germany costs between 30 and 40 euros. With a prescription is either 5 euros or free depending on why it was prescribed.
The problem of the US healthcare is much deeper than just the insurance companies. Every single layer of the system is rotten.
While this is true, the core of the rot is in the insurance companies. Institutions warp to shape themselves around the locus of power - and the power here is held by the insurance companies, through whom almost all healthcare payment passes through the greedy, grasping hands of.
After a hospital stay I went through the line by line charges of a relative that had been at the hospital for two days.
$500 for an x-ray, $90 on three separate occasions for an OTC dose of Tylenol.
Everyone is padding things out for more money, but I have a feeling the nurses that actually attended to him didn't see a cent of it.
I'm willing to bet that hospital was owned by an Insurance company.