$35,000 for treatment.

@Entwistle I could not imagine this happening in Canada.

@chrisCA they will run out of beds and hospital staff, and then having socialized healthcare won't mean shit.

@Entwistle that is the united stated=s health care system for you money talks no real care for the sick the old unless they can pay

@UnlikelyTomato There’s a point. We’ll have hospital beds, and people will die on the streets and in their homes because they can’t afford them. 🤦🏽‍♀️

@bijouxbroussard the states has the resources to give more people medical care at a time. in a national emergency normal payments can be delayed or frozen.
With socialized healthcare the system is sparse, questionable quality and overbooked, more people would probably die from lack of facilities than from lack of insurance.

@UnlikelyTomato We have the resources, this was never in doubt. Unfortunately, they’re also about profit, and go to the highest bidder. So it doesn’t much matter what could be delayed or frozen, if you’re being asked to pay up front before you will receive treatment. As a retiree and diabetic I’ve begun seeing this firsthand.

@bijouxbroussard still better than being socialized and fragile.

@UnlikelyTomato All I know is that my friends in the UK aren’t rationing their insulin, while people I know [b]here[/b] are. One recently died because of it.

@bijouxbroussard It is common here for retired people to take certain medicines every other day due to costs. Certain specialties are supposed to now use the national database to look how often you fill your meds before increasing a dose of adding medicine. Especially cardiology. Sometimes it's not the med that isn't working, it is the person not taking the med every day. They usually aren't going to just say it.

@MySecretIdentity1 Ah, yes, I see what you're saying. There's also been an issue even with non insulin-dependent diabetics to test every single day to monitor glucose levels, but many insurers will only pay for enough test strips for once daily. Most doctors agree that's not often enough to manage the daily fluctuations

@bijouxbroussard I try to only text once a day, if that. My blood sugars stay pretty low, and my meds don't change based on my sugar. I'm trying to make them last because they will be going up in price and I'd also rather the people who's lives depend on it get them. I wonder off the still sell the old paper that we used to do blood sugar tests on in the old days. You'd drop one drop of blood On this paper strip and watch what shade of purple the edges were. Then you'd compare it to a key to get a 5 point range and base the insulin does on that. Ya, I'm that old.