and people ask, "why the icon?"

[venividivicious]

i was born in the wealthiest, most advanced civilization to walk the earth in at least thousands of years.
i am young.
i earn > $50k/yr.
i am intelligent.
i work harder than 95% of the people i know.

SO WHY DO I NOT HAVE HEALTH COVERAGE?i have dresden for tonsils

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[venividivicious]

hah! well, comparitively i have nothing to complain about. i just went to the urgent care joint up the street and had them shoot me in the ass with some antibiotics. oh the look of horror on the chicks face when i told her i was paying with CASH. $85 bucks later i can barely feel below my waist. i was expecting worse; maybe that's the sickest part.

that's exactly what it is: ransom. i can't believe taht these people aren't being hung from streetlights over that shit. people are DYING and they're standing there with the pills they need and they're not giving them to them over CASH. i could MAAAAYBE understand if it was some super rare mineral that is only found in some frozen tundra somewhere only occuring naturally where a mastadon took a shit in a pile of banana peels on a thursday 47,422 years ago, and if that was the case, the motherfucking CEO had better be out there with a little spoon scraping it up. otherwise it's just plain robbery and they WILL pay.

sadly, the type of protest you described is probably the only way shit will ever gain the momentum to change. even sadder is the realization that the Rx companies probably have the pull in the media to muffle the story.

sick bastards.

[meenk]

Honestly, it would probably have to be 100 people doing it (but not all at once.. that's just mass hysteria, not a sadistic, cash-driven system at fault) for them to even care. Even then, it would be lip service for months, a few poorly worded reactionary laws to stop the high-profile deaths from happening, and nothing done to fix the problem at its source. Just like school shootings.