it is literal violence against disabled people to make necessary medications so expensive that only the rich can afford them. it is insurance companies supporting eugenics. It is in fact a death sentence. It’s not just “good business” It is literally “good euthanasia”
After receiving FDA approval my steroid; Deflazacort, just went from 800$ a year to 89,000$ a year.
I’m told my insurance will now cover all of it but to say the least I am skeptical… especially if(when) the ACA gets repealed.It’s not life saving but it probably adds some years.
Yeah, repealing the ACA [obamacare] will kill millions of people, they’re getting rid of us as fast as they can. These prices are not possible for the average disabled person to pay, because most of us can’t work.
need I remind everyone, disabled people at most make around $8000 a year, the poverty line starts at around $11000 for a single person. and disabled people can’t even save over $2000 or they are removed from their disability benefits, which means we cannot even save up to the poverty line.
some of these medications that keep us alive are so absurdly out of our reach without it being covered we would die, either faster than normal, or as soon as we run out. There is absolutely no way around this.
People are dying because of these prices, and make no mistake, this is intentional. They’re not just “stupid” and “don’t understand what their actions entail.” They want us dead. These people do not want disabled people to live, that’s all it boils down to.
thought i’d specify disabled people who arent on disability benefits, I know for a fact not enough people get the disability benefits that they deserve, and that was a mistake on my part not to include. These people who haven’t been granted disability money make either nothing, or far less than non-disabled people, some places it’s legal to pay disabled people 22 cents an hour.
This too is violence, and further proof that no matter what we do we cannot afford such outrageous prices of life-saving medications on our own.
And you know what, there are disabled children who cannot work, and if they only have one or two parents …. minimum wage isn’t even going to cut paying for these medications, and even the national average income would not cover some of these life saving medications, surgeries, and treatments. Commodifying medicine is genocide.