You know, I remember before Trump won in 2016, I had a friend who I met with shortly before the election. We had both voted early, her for Hillary and me for Trump. I listened to her arguments for why she was voting for Hillary and it all centered around health care concerns, as her husband had a pretty serious pre-existing condition that was causing her all sorts of concern over the loss of Obamacare. I tried to explain to her that Trump had such great plans for how to fix our insurance but she just wouldn't listen.
I find it so ironic that one of Biden's first orders of business was to ensure that life-saving medications like insulin and epipens could be priced as high as possible. This woman's prescription cost went up 730% overnight, for a medication that her son literally cannot live without.
I have asthma and have a rescue inhaler. For a long time I didn't have insurance and couldn't afford the $1200 a month for Obamacare's $15000 deductible shitty plan. One day, they "reformulated" the prescription for my rescue inhaler so they could eliminate the cheap generics, so the price went from $5 an inhaler to $75+ an inhaler, for a medication I needed every month. Not the same amount as this poor mom, but similar percentage increase -- there is nothing so awful as trying to decide if you are going to breathe or eat this month. I can only imagine it is a billion times worse when it is your kid suffering and not you.
She's right -- we need to be mad and take that anger and turn it into ACTION. WE THE PEOPLE need to stand up and say no more!
You know, I remember before Trump won in 2016, I had a friend who I met with shortly before the election. We had both voted early, her for Hillary and me for Trump. I listened to her arguments for why she was voting for Hillary and it all centered around health care concerns, as her husband had a pretty serious pre-existing condition that was causing her all sorts of concern over the loss of Obamacare. I tried to explain to her that Trump had such great plans for how to fix our insurance but she just wouldn't listen.
I find it so ironic that one of Biden's first orders of business was to ensure that life-saving medications like insulin and epipens could be priced as high as possible. This woman's prescription cost went up 730% overnight, for a medication that her son literally cannot live without.
I have asthma and have a rescue inhaler. For a long time I didn't have insurance and couldn't afford the $1200 a month for Obamacare's $15000 deductible shitty plan. One day, they "reformulated" the prescription for my rescue inhaler so they could eliminate the cheap generics, so the price went from $5 an inhaler to $75+ an inhaler, for a medication I needed every month. Not the same amount as this poor mom, but similar percentage increase -- there is nothing so awful as trying to decide if you are going to breathe or eat this month. I can only imagine it is a billion times worse when it is your kid suffering and not you.
She's right -- we need to be mad and take that anger and turn it into ACTION. WE THE PEOPLE need to stand up and say no more!