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We work 40+ hours a week and they tell us we can’t afford insulin for our neighbors, but we can always afford another war
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this post was submitted on 10 Oct 2026
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A good part of the reason public health expenditure is so much higher in the US is because public healthcare doesn't generally cover healthy people. Medicare exclusively covers seniors and disabled people for instance.
If we just expanded coverage to everyone, we'd probably be instantly on par with other public health systems on a cost-per-patient basis.
This and maybe not always using name-brand prescriptions. But maybe that has changed, it has been a while since I was actively living in the US.
Medicare Part D is kind of a cluster fuck. The way the use different PBMs and its your job to create a spreadsheet of all the meds you take, which are covered, and min-max your way to being able to live is absolutely fucking infuriating...
That said, the system absolutely does not push your towards expensive name-brand meds, probably errs on the side of pushing you towards generics, when they are available.
There are other factors on the pharmacy side, including public advertising, so patients demand those name brand drugs, and physician influencing campaigns...