[Jack]

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It was a Monday in late July and Mary Foster was almost out of medicine.

Because of new state Medicaid cutbacks that took effect on July 1, the 62-year-old Missouri woman wasn't sure how she would get the $600 worth of prescription pills and insulin she takes monthly to combat diabetes and high blood pressure.

Foster stopped work a few years ago to adopt her drug-addicted son's two toddlers and the three of them now live on about $1,100 a month with no private insurance.

So as the two children played at her feet, Foster called social workers and hospitals, searching for low-cost access to the medicine she needs. Someone suggested she ask a pharmaceutical company for free samples. That might get her through another month, she was told.

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We have discussed post-peak dieoff. I believe that the above, along with the material at the link, is the paradigm we'll follow.

Submitted for your approval.

[RonMN]

unfortunately...Yup

[Cool Hand Linc]

Me too.

Only the strong survive will take on new meaning. Unhealthy is 'not strong.' The question is how weak?

Serious illnesses will take a toll.

Maybe aids medication should be cut. I hear its really expensive.

[doufus]

We may be facing bad times but there is no excuse for immature
cruelty and BS "hard man" attitudes.

Consider that all u strong, able to survive, fit and healthy types may
actually be exposed to the following by simple accident:

1. Surgery and dentistry without aneasthesia.
2. Absence of pain killers for your spinal injury.
3. Death from a tooth abcess. Runaway infections can do that.
4. Death from appendicitis.
5. Crippled, badly set broken limbs from no x-rays.
6. Pneumonia. No antibiotics. (and it kills the strong too).
7. Plenty of other things that people accepted 60 yrs ago but we don't.

Life is going to get tough. I hope no-one gloats when you need medical
help and only the basics prevail.

[PenultimateManStanding]

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1. Surgery and dentistry without aneasthesia.
2. Absence of pain killers for your spinal injury.
3. Death from a tooth abcess. Runaway infections can do that.
4. Death from appendicitis.
5. Crippled, badly set broken limbs from no x-rays.
6. Pneumonia. No antibiotics. (and it kills the strong too).
7. Plenty of other things that people accepted 60 yrs ago but we don't.

Life is going to get tough. I hope no-one gloats when you need medical
help and only the basics prevail.

[EnergySpin]

How about the close to 1 billion $ per annum that Big Pharmas were leaching from Medicare/Medicaid and patients ($800mi and $200 mi respectivelly) with the AWP scheme?
That's a lot of money ... and they were taking it from everyone (government and patients). At least 20 states have taken them to the courts for fraud. And the scheme had been going on for years.

[doufus]

Aloe Vera for infections? really. I wonder why penicillin was hailed as
a miracle in WWII by saving thousands of lives! really, whatever antibiotic properties aloe has are pitiful compared to a modern antibiotic. When you're close to gangrene I'm sure you'll welcome a squeeze of aloe juice applied topically instead of an IV drip of Amoxcyllin that will kill the infection in a couple of days. Aloe will give u a nice need for amputation
without aneasthesia.

As for the other comments, puhleeze. Sure the medical system is a ripoff. I'm not interested in the politics- just the reality that any significant hit on infrastructure/social organisation will degrade the health system enormously.

Need ventolin for your asthma (and plenty of super fir athletes have that!). Too bad. Blood pressure meds. Diabetic medication. Oxygen! Thyroid medication. Chronic disease sufferers are toast in a sit'n of anarchy.

The fit and strong can be toast as well- just takes one blow to the head, one fall, one argument, one "not looking where I was going", one drunk
n fell over, one missed catch of the ball, some ice or water, falling from
a tree, down a hill etc.

It's one thing to dispense with the infim with a wave of the hand. but
u could be one of them in a heart beat. So pls, none of this survival of the fit BS. It will be hard enough as it is.