If COVID shots were given away for free because they "saved lives", why isnt insulin given away for free? Or chemotherapy? Or EpiPens?
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Because it is easier to cover the costs with subsidies for one emergency measure in a special circumstance than it is for all the many various continuous treatments.
They’re almost there. They’ve climbed the bluff, approached the edge of the cliff, and just before they peer over the edge to see the vast and beautiful plains stretching out below, they decide they’d rather turn around and take a nap.
I’m sure the one thing losing money for everyone just by existing being wildly contagious so it’s simply more cost effective to head it off and the others not being so much and therefore a hell of a lot easier to say “not our problem” to is only a trifling feather on that scale. Also those other things SHOULD be covered in a better world. Let’s try making this world better, shall we? Instead of defaulting to “that’s not MY problem so why should I do anything to solve it in fact why don’t I actively make things harder because screw you for thinking I should care.”
“If COVID shots were given away for free because they "saved lives", why isnt insulin given away for free? Or chemotherapy? Or EpiPens?”
Oh, and insulin IS given away free. People just have to wait until they’re actually in an emergency condition and get to the ER. Docs can’t turn them away even if the diagnosis is ‘no money.’ So they get insulin at the ER. You’re paying for it. Doc will also send them home with as much insulin as he possibly can. That you’re paying for. They just can’t get a steady supply of insulin, except going from emergency to emergency.
Perhaps because Covid-19 was an international emergency?
Or perhaps because diabetes, cancer, and allergies are not contagious? If those patients don't get their meds, it doesn't harm anyone else and that makes it easy for strangers not to care.
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