Her $1500/month toe fungus medication drew international response/ridicule

[egbertowillies]

I posted a story about a woman who went to see her doctor for a simple dermatological exam. The doctor said she had a toe fungus and prescribed a ridiculously expensive medication, $1500/month, that had a 7% success rate! Some foreigners responded to the story. Everyone needs to read their comments.

https://egbertowillies.com/2018/03/17/1500-month-toe-fungus-medication-response/

[Lochloosa]

1. Check your link

[mn9driver]

2. I had an experience with health care in France last summer.

My wife required some prescription medicine that she forgot to pack and we had to see a doctor in Paris to get a new prescription so we could finish our visit.

We were able to get an appointment the same day at her second floor office with a tiny waiting room. The office itself had her desk on one side and an exam table on the other. There was no receptionist, no insurance specialist, no bookkeeper.

She spent 30 minutes with my wife, performing a thorough exam and interview (fortunately, our French is passable). At the end, she wrote a prescription and, since we had no French health insurance, apologized profusely for needing to bill us €20 for the appointment.

At the pharmacy, they again apologized for having to bill us €35 for the medicine since we were uninsured. In the US , the same medicine would have been $450 if we had no insurance.

Contrast that with a kidney stone experience I had not too long ago right here at home:

If I had been uninsured, the total of all the many bills would have exceeded $50,000. This is not an exaggeration. I have the bills.

Health care in the US is largely a criminal enterprise that US citizens have been brainwashed into accepting as normal and good.