8.19.2011

Our Awesome Health Care System, pt 842

Uninsured woman dying of bone cancer holds yard sale to pay bills.
Punk ass neighbor whines to city, has it shut down.

The sad thing is the news hook is the neighbor, not the fact that a terminally ill woman has to mount a yard sale to pay off some fraction of her medical bills.

And I spotted this in the paper the other morning- Price Gouging Spikes Drug Costs Up to 4500%.

Unscrupulous companies are engaging in price gouging of scarce, life-saving drugs on the so-called "grey market," with markups averaging 650% but as high as 4,500% before they even get to the hospital.

the LAT, where I saw the story, noted that the practice "wasn't illegal".

USA! USA! USA!

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