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[–] [email protected] 163 points 1 week ago (21 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 70 points 1 week ago (9 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 week ago (2 children)

the rot is in the insurance companies

The rot is in a system that allows this. What you people need is much more regulation, not less.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 week ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 week ago

It infringes on my constitutional freedom to be ripped off!

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