The quality and depth of your input is breathtaking.
Yep. For at least the last 30-40 years, I too thought it was common knowledge that there was a proven connection between Tylenol and liver damage. When you look at your hospital bill and see that a single Tylenol tablet costs $40, who doesn’t think big pharma will do practically anything to protect that market? I thought the stories about $40 Tylenol tablets were some kind of conspiracy theory until I saw it on my bill a few years ago. And yes, Darwin does work, but sometimes it takes time. During that time lag, a wake of damaged innocent lives can be left along the way.
It’ll cost you $40 to get an advil or an aspirin too…Yep. For at least the last 30-40 years, I too thought it was common knowledge that there was a proven connection between Tylenol and liver damage. When you look at your hospital bill and see that a single Tylenol tablet costs $40, who doesn’t think big pharma will do practically anything to protect that market? I thought the stories about $40 Tylenol tablets were some kind of conspiracy theory until I saw it on my bill a few years ago. And yes, Darwin does work, but sometimes it takes time. During that time lag, a wake of damaged innocent lives can be left along the way.
What makes you think that "big pharma" gets any part of that $40? The hospital buys meds from the manufacturers (cheap) then resells them to the patient. Anything you have to pay for at a hospital is drastically marked up over what they paid for item.Yep. For at least the last 30-40 years, I too thought it was common knowledge that there was a proven connection between Tylenol and liver damage. When you look at your hospital bill and see that a single Tylenol tablet costs $40, who doesn’t think big pharma will do practically anything to protect that market? I thought the stories about $40 Tylenol tablets were some kind of conspiracy theory until I saw it on my bill a few years ago. And yes, Darwin does work, but sometimes it takes time. During that time lag, a wake of damaged innocent lives can be left along the way.
If they don't get the Mucomyst on board within about 8 hours, it ain't very efficacious, and not much they can do but watch their condition deteriorate.
I sort of agree, but... Hospitals cost a lot to operate 24/7. Doctors and nurses get paid a lot of money, and they should. I do not want someone who could be working at Wal-Mart figuring out how to treat a serious illness or injury. During my life I lost several fingers in a major accident, 2 years ago I had a heart attack, and last year I had a serious incident with dehydration that required a 45 mile ambulance ride to the nearest hospital. Having hospitals with well trained staff available at any time of the day or night, especially for those of us that spend time in remote areas, is really important. Somehow these things have to be paid for.
You are quite right, but think about when the ventilator is needed in the process.
It should not be such a rip off....having said that, I know a man who had to have a heart condition attended to in a Russian hospital twenty years ago. He said he begged God to let him get stabilized enough to get home to an American hospital.
Only when the Court wants to follow it.
Except that Tylenol may have 10 or more different prices on the hospital's Chargemaster. Depends on who is the payor as to the cost of that Tylenol.
The cost of medicine has gone up for the same reason the cost of college has gone up.
