...or you can pay the $250 out of pocket too. Most are probably in the same boat either way for decent medical care.
One resource that we have gotten tremendous mileage out of is the higher potency forms of DIY natural medicine. An intro version is here, medical and scientific papers direct for the advanced stuff. IRL, I had lots of experimental chemistry and biology too.
Thanks for keeping a sharp eye on the details. When I wrote "70-80 year years old" extemporaneously , I was thinking of the sulfonamides, so commonly used with Pyrimethamine for malaria, which I've actually used in the combo drug, ca 36-37 yrs ago.
But I agree with the next poster and other factors, to hold FDA regs responsible for creating the conditions to enable the highly inflated US drug price structure. This includes them menacing me over a cheap and highly effective cancer drug even while it was only being used in a foreign country by a foreign citizen. Before I embrassed the FDA manager for the criminal overreach.
There are many market forces, including the ability to vote with your feet. Having spent their precious money on ACA insurance premiums and copays cuts most people off at the knees - their choices already financially drained, they are forced to do whatever their insurance pays for.
You're apparenty too locked into living, and dying, in an unfree society.
Dear Doofs,
Of course I've gotten US and Asian scripts, for an off-label use for an old, approved drug now on the ReDO list ("Repurposing drugs in oncology"). The Redo list consists of old, generic drugs that have good potential cancer uses (e.g. small studies with good results) but now have no pharma sponsor to get FDA or other nations' approvals. Quality, cheap drugs show what a scam the US drug market is. Ditto the documented off label uses in PubMed.
If I add 6+ years of high quality life vs everyone else who died out years ago, who is an idiot?
If I save enough money to build a large house with unwasted cash, who is an idiot?
Unfortunately for a lot of folks, they go to their graves, bodies and finances broken, thinking they exhausted the reasonable possibilities of staying alive. Unfortunately this is a misperception. Fortunately for me, I can read a few thousand research and clinical papers for myself, I have real commercial research experiences where the ordinary PhDs fail.
I responded to the prior post, above mine: "This new administration could have been an opportunity to bring open-market forces to medicine. But so far, I see no indication of this happening. If anything, the swamp is getting deeper."
Dumping the fascistic ACA mandate is a step to bringing open market forces to medicine...
Nationalized medicine would be the death of many of us. In tightly controlled countries, like Canada and in Europe, you can't get many cheap drugs - they simply aren't available at all vs I can get them in Asia for 1-5 cents. In Asia, I pay 2 cents per pill for an "obsolete drug" that stops some common forms of cancer metastasis but is unadvertised, ignored and/or unavailable in most of the world. This saves me $20-30,000 a month in the US for a biotech drug.
Sorry, you don't know s--- about vitamins. Specific forms, combinations and doses of vitamins and other nutrients can often do amazing things. Just that they are not extensively tested and documented like drugs on patent. The negavitamin types, often shills cloaked in regulatory or MD/RD authoritarian "science" views, actually seem to be the loudest and most dangerous from where I sit.
I will stipulate that there are massive propagandists on both sides.
Just so everybody knows the differences. Niacin performance varies with its dissolution and absorption rate.
"Instant release" can vary by tablet construction and meals. A typical aimpoint is 3000 mg per day in divided doses.
The longest, slowest, extended release forms can become toxic at high doses and should be removed from the market. It took makers a number of years to optimize the intermediate release forms for cutting cholesterol and minimizing the flush or initial burn in. The supplement Enduracin is, or used to be, considered the premier time release formulation, based on the research of Robert Kowalski. Typically 1500 mg per day, divided into 3 doses.
The Martin Shkreli case is about a 70-80 year old drug that was "re-monopolized" under FDA regulations, raising its price over 10,000x. The basic patents are looooong expired. The FDA is not a solution, it is a huge source of the problems - Uncle Sam the Monopoly Man, ya know!
Free market medical move #1 was ending the ACA (Obamacare) mandate which would financially lock most people into FDA monopoly medicines and often poorly performing maimstream medicine.
Many problems can be better addressed by the closer-to-natural-biochemistry of supplements, but first you need a little money leftover to start.
A remote drone has a much reduced need for shielding.
e.g. a semi-permanent drone patrolling the uninhabited pacific at 2 km high would not need much shielding and could easily even avoid ships and planes closer than a few miles. Hang a few antiship, air-to-air, and antipersonnel missiles on it, and replace much of the blue water surface navy patrols.
2 km distance makes even popping a neutron bomb less hazardous...
Single payer is likely to restrict (y)our access to lifesaving treatments.
I've lost number of Canadian acquaintances to cancer. In many cases they were not funded for expensive treatments - either a drug or surgery available in the US. Also they could not get a critical generic drug that I pay 11 cents at Walmart in the US and 2 cents in Asia. In some cases, if they bypassed the Canadian restrictions, like got a scan in the US, some Canadian doctors wouldn't look at or use the scan. They were all unhappy about these Canadian features.
A lot of the university "goods" are intangibles at fake, overhyped suggested retail prices, instead of the actual, highly discounted prices that most students pay after "scholarships" or other aid. Some sort of national cap price should apply. Or simply wait for the market to re-arrange the student choices of preferred "good" schools' tuition policies.
Most universities are greatly overpriced and featherbedded, IMHO.
1. Since it actually increases yearly taxes on almost all graduate student, usually at or near zero, the tax plan is not universal tax reduction or a rate cut.
2. The tuition waiver at most should only apply to credited lecture or student instruction hours, not supervised lab and research hours
3. The tuition waiver should be assessed at value or cost basis, not nominal, hyperinflated tuition values, even if super rich kids do pay that muchundiscounted. e.g. instead of Ivy rates over $1000 per credit hour, some national rate or actual labor cost basis should apply, say capped at $100-$200 per hour.
Otherwise increased taxation is greatly adding insult to injury on this already f*ked up education system's exploitation of parents and students that actually work.
It there still a separate tax-free treatment of scholarships (gifts)?
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Yes, the US medical prices are a huge scam. A 2 cent pill in Asia may cost 10 cents, $1, or more.
...or you can pay the $250 out of pocket too. Most are probably in the same boat either way for decent medical care.
One resource that we have gotten tremendous mileage out of is the higher potency forms of DIY natural medicine. An intro version is here, medical and scientific papers direct for the advanced stuff. IRL, I had lots of experimental chemistry and biology too.
Thanks for keeping a sharp eye on the details. When I wrote "70-80 year years old" extemporaneously , I was thinking of the sulfonamides, so commonly used with Pyrimethamine for malaria, which I've actually used in the combo drug, ca 36-37 yrs ago.
But I agree with the next poster and other factors, to hold FDA regs responsible for creating the conditions to enable the highly inflated US drug price structure. This includes them menacing me over a cheap and highly effective cancer drug even while it was only being used in a foreign country by a foreign citizen. Before I embrassed the FDA manager for the criminal overreach.
Sure is a lot better than North Korea's PR.
No one is thinking about obiliterating Musk. We'll see who has the better business plan.
There are many market forces, including the ability to vote with your feet. Having spent their precious money on ACA insurance premiums and copays cuts most people off at the knees - their choices already financially drained, they are forced to do whatever their insurance pays for.
You're apparenty too locked into living, and dying, in an unfree society.
Dear Doofs,
Of course I've gotten US and Asian scripts, for an off-label use for an old, approved drug now on the ReDO list ("Repurposing drugs in oncology"). The Redo list consists of old, generic drugs that have good potential cancer uses (e.g. small studies with good results) but now have no pharma sponsor to get FDA or other nations' approvals. Quality, cheap drugs show what a scam the US drug market is. Ditto the documented off label uses in PubMed.
If I add 6+ years of high quality life vs everyone else who died out years ago, who is an idiot?
If I save enough money to build a large house with unwasted cash, who is an idiot?
Unfortunately for a lot of folks, they go to their graves, bodies and finances broken, thinking they exhausted the reasonable possibilities of staying alive. Unfortunately this is a misperception. Fortunately for me, I can read a few thousand research and clinical papers for myself, I have real commercial research experiences where the ordinary PhDs fail.
Zzzzzz, you must be asleep.
I responded to the prior post, above mine:
"This new administration could have been an opportunity to bring open-market forces to medicine. But so far, I see no indication of this happening. If anything, the swamp is getting deeper."
Dumping the fascistic ACA mandate is a step to bringing open market forces to medicine...
Nationalized medicine would be the death of many of us. In tightly controlled countries, like Canada and in Europe, you can't get many cheap drugs - they simply aren't available at all vs I can get them in Asia for 1-5 cents. In Asia, I pay 2 cents per pill for an "obsolete drug" that stops some common forms of cancer metastasis but is unadvertised, ignored and/or unavailable in most of the world. This saves me $20-30,000 a month in the US for a biotech drug.
Yep, we can be "legally" forced to pay for the chains. If you let them.
Sorry, you don't know s--- about vitamins. Specific forms, combinations and doses of vitamins and other nutrients can often do amazing things. Just that they are not extensively tested and documented like drugs on patent. The negavitamin types, often shills cloaked in regulatory or MD/RD authoritarian "science" views, actually seem to be the loudest and most dangerous from where I sit.
I will stipulate that there are massive propagandists on both sides.
HIgh quality niacin supplements can meet or beat the prescriptions quality wise, flat out.
Just so everybody knows the differences. Niacin performance varies with its dissolution and absorption rate.
"Instant release" can vary by tablet construction and meals. A typical aimpoint is 3000 mg per day in divided doses.
The longest, slowest, extended release forms can become toxic at high doses and should be removed from the market. It took makers a number of years to optimize the intermediate release forms for cutting cholesterol and minimizing the flush or initial burn in. The supplement Enduracin is, or used to be, considered the premier time release formulation, based on the research of Robert Kowalski. Typically 1500 mg per day, divided into 3 doses.
The Martin Shkreli case is about a 70-80 year old drug that was "re-monopolized" under FDA regulations, raising its price over 10,000x. The basic patents are looooong expired. The FDA is not a solution, it is a huge source of the problems - Uncle Sam the Monopoly Man, ya know!
Free market medical move #1 was ending the ACA (Obamacare) mandate which would financially lock most people into FDA monopoly medicines and often poorly performing maimstream medicine.
Many problems can be better addressed by the closer-to-natural-biochemistry of supplements, but first you need a little money leftover to start.
.... in fact the first victim(s) may very well be their creator... that may not be a deterrent.
Sounds like a lot of jobs for summer hires and interns
... if a scientific panel decides that the benefits justify the risks.
Sounds like code for pharmas need new blockbuster drugs...
A remote drone has a much reduced need for shielding.
e.g. a semi-permanent drone patrolling the uninhabited pacific at 2 km high would not need much shielding and could easily even avoid ships and planes closer than a few miles. Hang a few antiship, air-to-air, and antipersonnel missiles on it, and replace much of the blue water surface navy patrols.
2 km distance makes even popping a neutron bomb less hazardous...
Single payer is likely to restrict (y)our access to lifesaving treatments.
I've lost number of Canadian acquaintances to cancer. In many cases they were not funded for expensive treatments - either a drug or surgery available in the US. Also they could not get a critical generic drug that I pay 11 cents at Walmart in the US and 2 cents in Asia. In some cases, if they bypassed the Canadian restrictions, like got a scan in the US, some Canadian doctors wouldn't look at or use the scan. They were all unhappy about these Canadian features.
There are restrictione that prevent competition. In India, generic insulins, porcine or human analog, are available for $1-3 per vial.
Prices in the US are a mess, Even a 75 yr old drug, a few cents in Asia, was monopolized thanks to some FDA regs and then hawked for $700+.
...what possibly could go wrong ???
Cowling hits a fly or ants crawled in...
We call software errors, "bug", because of certain hardware errors at the dawn of the computer age....
You can be sure the implied funding requests travel much faster than the Nature or Science publication schedules...
A lot of the university "goods" are intangibles at fake, overhyped suggested retail prices, instead of the actual, highly discounted prices that most students pay after "scholarships" or other aid. Some sort of national cap price should apply. Or simply wait for the market to re-arrange the student choices of preferred "good" schools' tuition policies.
Most universities are greatly overpriced and featherbedded, IMHO.
1. Since it actually increases yearly taxes on almost all graduate student, usually at or near zero, the tax plan is not universal tax reduction or a rate cut.
2. The tuition waiver at most should only apply to credited lecture or student instruction hours, not supervised lab and research hours
3. The tuition waiver should be assessed at value or cost basis, not nominal, hyperinflated tuition values, even if super rich kids do pay that muchundiscounted. e.g. instead of Ivy rates over $1000 per credit hour, some national rate or actual labor cost basis should apply, say capped at $100-$200 per hour.
Otherwise increased taxation is greatly adding insult to injury on this already f*ked up education system's exploitation of parents and students that actually work.
It there still a separate tax-free treatment of scholarships (gifts)?