Here's an interesting tidbit from the past, around the late 1990s ('97 if I recall correctly):
My MIL at the time had leukemia. She was traveling back and forth to MD Anderson in Houston for treatment and a few times they did chemotherapy rounds. The second round since she still had a PICC line she was allowed to do chemo at home with the chemo bag hooked to her catheter and carried around in a backpack she wore.
Since she didn't have insurance I talked to my pharmacist and he agreed to order her chemo bags and sell them to me at his cost- which was just under $300 per bag. The same bag of chemo drugs when she did her treatments previously at the hospital were billed at $15K each (just the drugs, not the time and attention of them being administered or anything else).
Imagine $15K for $300 worth of medicine! The profit margin is insane!
My MIL at the time had leukemia. She was traveling back and forth to MD Anderson in Houston for treatment and a few times they did chemotherapy rounds. The second round since she still had a PICC line she was allowed to do chemo at home with the chemo bag hooked to her catheter and carried around in a backpack she wore.
Since she didn't have insurance I talked to my pharmacist and he agreed to order her chemo bags and sell them to me at his cost- which was just under $300 per bag. The same bag of chemo drugs when she did her treatments previously at the hospital were billed at $15K each (just the drugs, not the time and attention of them being administered or anything else).
Imagine $15K for $300 worth of medicine! The profit margin is insane!
As an American it's your responsibility to have your own strategic duck stockpile. You can't expect the government to do it for you.
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