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4/22/2023: Wall Street Journal reports that Frontier charges $25.00 to print a boarding pass…and some other airlines have fees too.
It’s still generally free to print your own.
Same stuff, different day.
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Of some ironing, the United CEO was caught taking a private jet from Teterboro during the 6/2023 Northeast US, Thunderstorm-schedule-cascade-debarcle…Les règles de l'aviation de base découragent de longues périodes de dur tirer vers le haut.
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Originally posted by Wall Street JournalThe cancer drug Gleevec went generic in 2016 and can be bought today for as little as $55 a month. But many patients’ insurance plans are paying more than 100 times that.
CVS Health and Cigna can charge $6,600 a month or more for Gleevec prescriptions, a Wall Street Journal analysis of pricing data found. They are able to do that because they set the prices with pharmacies, which they sometimes own.
Once the patent on an expensive medicine runs out, lower-priced copies go on sale, promising significant savings. But certain generic drugs—for cancer, multiple sclerosis
and other complicated diseases— are still costing thousands of dollars monthly.
Across a selection of these so-called specialty generic drugs, Cigna and CVS’s prices were at least 24 times higher on average than roughly what the medicines’ manufacturers charge, the Journal found.
The prices at UnitedHealth Group, which also owns a large health insurer, were 3.5 times as much, according to the analysis of data compiled by 46brooklyn Research, a nonprofit drug-pricing analytics group.
“Someone in the middle of that transaction is making a lot of money, and they’re doing it at the detriment of the consumers,” said Stacie Dusetzina, a health policy professor at Vanderbilt University School of Medicine who studies drug costs.
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Originally posted by 3WE View PostNot_Airlines:
Sure glad we[no italics] have the government involved in health care.
what a bunch of douchebags. it is truly embarrassing to be an american sometimes.
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Well, when Trump gets back in, it will all be fixed…or when Biden is re-elected…something like that…/blue font.
On the bright side, ESPN and Disney are back on Flyover Cable TV.Les règles de l'aviation de base découragent de longues périodes de dur tirer vers le haut.
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Originally posted by 3WE View PostNot_Airlines:
Sure glad we[no italics] have the government involved in health care.
Meanwhile, in Germany, where the government is involved in health care, it's basically free. Oh, the poor fools...
Meanwhile, in a special circle of hell, there's a new big pharma wing going up.
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meanwhile, in the vast tundra to our north where healthcare is 100% controlled by the govt and it is "free" it takes 1-2 weeks to see a GP, 6-8 months to see a specialist, advanced treatments are almost non-existent and everyone that has money heads to the US for treatment.
now, that's what i want in my life!
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Originally posted by TeeVee View Postmeanwhile, in the vast tundra to our north where healthcare is 100% controlled by the govt and it is "free" it takes 1-2 weeks to see a GP, 6-8 months to see a specialist, advanced treatments are almost non-existent and everyone that has money heads to the US for treatment.
now, that's what i want in my life!
Conclusion, restaurants serve horrible food.
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Originally posted by Gabriel View Post
I went to a restaurant once, their food was horrible.
Conclusion, restaurants serve horrible food.
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Originally posted by Gabriel View Post
I went to a restaurant once, their food was horrible.
Conclusion, restaurants serve horrible food.
dont get me wrong. i'm not a huge fan of the US system which rewards even shitty doctors with insanely inflated salaries and compensation, private health carriers that charge nearly $3000/month for a small family and require a $20,000 deductible be met, 30% co-pay, and only 80% coverage for everything else even IN-PLAN. but all that aside, at least you get to see a doctor before you need the undertaker
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Originally posted by TeeVee View Post
for a smart guy, that's a really stupid argument, gabe. very few countries with fully socialized (NOT free) medicine pull it off well.
Few countries pull this off very well. But Germany and Northern Europe pull this off very well. Why can't the US do the same?
Oh, right, boogeymen and cynics...
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