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Jnew28

(931 posts)
Tue May 24, 2016, 09:49 PM May 2016

Making Money Off the Sick is a Sick Idea!

Please read: http://stupidpartymathvmyth.com/1/post/2016/05/making-money-off-sick-sick-idea.html

"Now here’s the real kicker. OxyContin wasn’t even a new drug. Purdue took an old cheap narcotic called oxycodone (used in Percocet and Roxicodone) and added a poorly functioning time-release mechanism, and then called it OxyContin. This drug was not a medical breakthrough at all, but they certainly pitched it as the twice a day. Commonsense doctors would have never allowed for a $31 billion rip off breakthrough that ends the problem of taking medication multiple times a day. It was the only benefit that they could pitch to doctors.

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Hoyt

(54,770 posts)
1. The one thing I don't see in that article is patients who demand such drugs from docs,
Tue May 24, 2016, 10:02 PM
May 2016

putting them in awkward positions when they think less addictive drugs are a better choice. It's another one of those issues that is more complicated than it's solely a corporate conspiracy.

angstlessk

(11,862 posts)
3. Broke shoulder...went to hospital
Tue May 24, 2016, 10:16 PM
May 2016

had cat scan (head) and chest xray...AND had xray of shoulder.

Xray of shoulder says bone broke...

The plan for a broken shoulder was to inject me with morphine, give me a very expensive sling and send me on my way, but I refused the morphine...I asked for pain pills

The bill was $3,000 for a sling and I had to pay for the pain pills!

angstlessk

(11,862 posts)
2. I had oxy as a pain reliever, and it was no better to me than asperin
Tue May 24, 2016, 10:05 PM
May 2016

Could not figure the 'addiction'...maybe I should have crushed it and lit it in fire?

zalinda

(5,621 posts)
4. My new doctor suggested that I take a different drug
Tue May 24, 2016, 11:15 PM
May 2016

I was taking Clonazepam at night so I could fall asleep. I've been taking it for years without an increase in dosage. But because this drug has the possibility of being abused they put me on Ambien. So, after a few months, the insurance company refused to pay for it any more, and my doctor put me on this new drug called Rozerem, which apparently acts like Melatonin.

Clonazepam cost $20.49 a month and the Rozerem costs $534.99 a month, how obscene is this? Well, tomorrow I go to the doctor and try to get my Clonazepam back, I have serious ethical problems with Medicaid paying over $530 a month to a greedy drug company when something cheaper works better. I am having side effects with this new stuff, but I told the doctor I'd try it.

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Igel

(35,323 posts)
5. Making money off the sick is a sick idea.
Wed May 25, 2016, 06:45 AM
May 2016

And so is making money off the naked.

Or the cold.

Or the hungry.

Or the thirsty.

Or the stranded.

Or the stupid.

So clothiers, those who sell fuel or service furnaces or provide insulation or housing, or grow/produce food or beverages or transportation or involved in education shouldn't make money.

I'd argue that extends to their employees, because a lot of employees make a profit on their "investment" of time, training, education. What's the big difference between somebody who invests $100k to start a company and somebody who invests $100k in their education to start a practice?

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