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sicko-fem time to renew your subscription plan dear freedom-and-democracy

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[-] Babs@hexbear.net 33 points 1 year ago

Was recently talking about this with a friend who gets this from her doctor and is paying out the ass even with insurance, and another whose doctor refuses to prescribe it because "there is a shortage". Semaglutide is like $40 for a 5ml vial from Chinese labs (that's about 2 weeks at the highest dose), but we are trained to be afraid of self-medding or even talking to doctors about sourcing our meds outside of "official" pharmacies.

The cost of pharmaceuticals is so artificial. A vial of estrogen is like...hundreds of dollars if you buy it from a pharmacy, like $65 if you get it from a Brazilian weeb, and cheap as hell if you buy raws from china and compound them yourself? Makes no sense.

[-] Black_Mald_Futures@hexbear.net 11 points 1 year ago

whose doctor refuses to prescribe it because "there is a shortage".

I'm sorry, what? I would get a new doctor because that's dumb as fuck. If there is a shortage it isn't anything that has to do with the doctor, that's business between your friend and the pharmacist

[-] CTHlurker@hexbear.net 28 points 1 year ago

The government of Denmark salutes the American people and their sacrifice for making our line go up. Ozempic is currently the main reason why Novo Nordisk is one of the most valuable companies in Europe, and that company is almost single-handedly pulling Denmark out of a recession (on paper, most people here aren't doing too hot, but since when has our shitty fucking SocDems ever given a shit about that)

[-] SoyViking@hexbear.net 21 points 1 year ago

Not on paper. Even mainstream media acknowledges that one single drug from one single company is making the difference between growth and recession.

The political power of shipping giant Mærsk is well-understood by many Danes but it is very rarely you hear anyone talk about the power wielded by Novo. If Mærsk can strongarm the Danish government into doing basically anything it wants, so can Novo.

[-] asg101@hexbear.net 21 points 1 year ago

No sympathy, Americans have gotten the government they deserve. They keep thinking that continuing to vote for the "lesser evil" is going to get them anything other than evil.

[-] KimJongFun@hexbear.net 47 points 1 year ago

Americans are by and large swine, sure, but that doesn't mean we have to indulge in idealism and pretend that the American people as a body actually have any input or control over any of this shit. Electoralism is a dead end by design, it's not operator error when it does what it's supposed to

[-] Tunnelvision@hexbear.net 30 points 1 year ago

I understand the passion, but technically speaking single payer healthcare is popular among the populace. We will never get it because of the whole dictatorship of the bourgeois thing.

[-] coeliacmccarthy@hexbear.net 12 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

americans have gotten the government they deserve.

this is literally liberalism

if you think you deserve this then that's your problem

[-] RyanGosling@hexbear.net 20 points 1 year ago

“We subsidize every other country’s healthcare” is such a pathetic excuse lol. Weird that american greed stops when it comes to overcharging foreign customers for medicine

[-] Egon@hexbear.net 11 points 1 year ago

Does Ozempic do anything other than make you not hungry?

[-] save_vs_death@hexbear.net 10 points 1 year ago

you probably meant it as a joke, but it's original and intended use was for type-2 diabetes

[-] Black_Mald_Futures@hexbear.net 4 points 1 year ago

But does it do anything other than make you not hungry

[-] Egon@hexbear.net 1 points 1 year ago

No I didn't mean it as a joke. Does it do anything other than make you not hungry?

[-] save_vs_death@hexbear.net 2 points 1 year ago

It improves blood sugar levels by helping the pancreas release insulin and limiting the release of sugar into the bloodstream. Making you less hungry is a side-effect of this.

[-] Goatithro@hexbear.net 4 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

There is anecdotal talk it may help with addiction/addictive behaviors

[-] Egon@hexbear.net 1 points 1 year ago
[-] itappearsthat@hexbear.net 9 points 1 year ago

is it true that the drug works for weight loss by making you get nauseous after eating a small amount of food

[-] kristina@hexbear.net 7 points 1 year ago

With insurance I'm pretty sure its like 20 bucks a month in the USA. Goodrx though says anywhere from 930usd to 1100 usd thurston

[-] GaveUp@hexbear.net 6 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Y'all realise this is mostly because ozempic has become trendy in America as a weight loss medication because it came out a ton of celebrities were using it right?

[-] SoyViking@hexbear.net 18 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

It has become just as trendy in all the other countries as well and a flourishing grey market for the drug exists everywhere you have weight-conscious people with disposable income.

The difference in price between the US and developed countries is purely the uniquely parasitical nature of American healthcare.

[-] GaveUp@hexbear.net 4 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

People in all those other countries are on average wayyy lighter and healthier than Americans. There's definitely more demand and usage in USA just because of that. America also has one of the highest rates of aesthetic procedures as well

[-] thefluffiest@feddit.nl 5 points 1 year ago
[-] blobjim@hexbear.net 3 points 1 year ago

A lot of this is probably price negotiation by those countries but how much of it is just charging based on people's income in each country? Things generally have to be "cheaper" in places that aren't the US Empire.

[-] bloubz@lemmygrad.ml 5 points 1 year ago

It's more overcharge in the US than the opposite. Also I don't really understand your question I guess, because the US does not have a higher income than other countries, except for a few jobs

[-] blobjim@hexbear.net 1 points 1 year ago

My understanding was that the US generally does have higher incomes, at least in terms of US dollar equivalents. At least, if an American goes on vacation in another country, you can expect your money to go a lot farther.

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