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Big Pharma spends more on advertising than they do on research! Ask your doctor if another Big Pharma commercial is right for you!
LOL
I saw a YouTube video the other day of a guy mocking all the drug commercials. It was hysterical. Take X for your condition. Side effects may include A, B, C, D, E, F, G, H, I, J, K, L and M.
The drug will make you sicker than your original ailment!
My wife is now taking a drug we saw advertised on tv and asked her doctor about.
Wow.
Search engines are still around, ya know? Heavily research your health before turning to advice from a medium trying to sell you used cars and greasy death burgers from McDonalds right after the drug commercial.
We have great treatments, medicines, etc. but a good portion of the population can't afford to access care. Even with insurance, a heath crisis can bankrupt a family. Our medicine is good, but our system deserves to be ranked as the worst in the developed world.
The US has good quality of health care, what holds it back in relation to studies such as this is cost and access.
Universal system are always going to tank more highly in relation to access for everyone, and if that is a major criteria of this study which I suspect it is then the US is going to do as well.
It's the ACCESS to the healthcare that is the problem.
Eventually we will have some type of expanded Medicare-for-all program in the US. Don't know when, but it's an inevitability. There just isn't much value-added for private health insurance. If there's profit being made by the health insurance companies, then either the doctors are getting paid too little or the patients/premium payers are being charged too much.
Yeah, I think the arthritis drug Phil Mickleson, the golfer takes, can produce irritable bowel syndrome (IBS). I guess the next commercial will have him running around looking for toilet paper sold by bears to escape the girl in the tight-fitting pink outfit, who portrays the large intestine, so he can avoid the "pained look" of not finding a toilet in time!
We have great treatments, medicines, etc. but a good portion of the population can't afford to access care. Even with insurance, a heath crisis can bankrupt a family. Our medicine is good, but our system deserves to be ranked as the worst in the developed world.
If you have Medicaid, Medicare or Obamacare you will not go under due to massive medical bills from a health crisis.
With Obamacare you might have to pay a high deductible at some point, but that can be negotiated or paid off over time. And then again, some or all might be waived.
From our two experiences the past 15 mo. With my wife's massive trauma bills in 2017, we actually received more payments FROM BCBS and the providers than we paid out in deductibles. Too complicated to figure out why. But I rarely argue when payment is in our favor. Bills were over $1.3M. Obamacare paid the hospital only $200K and change.
In 2018 we have paid in a few thousand for her extremely complicated and expensive lymphoma treatments. In the millions, and still going.
I would wonder if her life would have been saved from the accident in some other country with 'better' HC, under similar traumatic circumstances. And how her lymphoma treatment would have gone.
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