• Malfeasant@lemm.ee
      9·
      7 days ago

      The land of opportunity… (Opportunity to exploit the less fortunate). Freedom costs a buck-o-five, have you paid yours?

  • Malfeasant@lemm.ee
    59·
    7 days ago

    Meanwhile, my brothers-in-law have hemochromatosis so need to be bled regularly to reduce the iron in their blood, and they have to pay for the privilege. One put off getting the diagnosis as long as he could because as long as it wasn’t official, he could donate blood and achieve the same effect, but once diagnosed, he can’t donate blood anymore- not that there’s anything wrong with it, but to be classified a donation, the donor can’t benefit from it in any way. Such irony. America, fuck yeah.

    • Ehoalid@lemmynsfw.comEnglish
      21·
      7 days ago

      That’s interesting, because I was diagnosed with hemochromatosis last year, and I go to the local blood donation center and bloodlet every 4 weeks. They don’t consider it a standard donation, but a therapeutic phlebotomy. But both my blood doctor and the donation center state that my blood is still used as if it were a donation, and I don’t pay anything.

      I wonder why there’s a difference.

    • Fiona@discuss.tchncs.de
      2·
      6 days ago

      Can’t he just not tell them that he has it? At least in Germany that was generally the solution for gay people to donate blood: The only person who could potentially be liable would be the physician if they knew for a fact that you were lying. Which was very unlikely, considering that those red cross people rarely included the local GPs. (The legal situation might be different in other countries though, so check!)

  • LiveLM@lemmy.zipEnglish
    26·
    6 days ago

    So I looked up the account on the screenshot and fell into a huge rabbit hole.
    The TL;DR is that the poster has a rare syndrome that makes it so his body simply doesn’t have energy to perform most tasks, and it progressed to a point where merely interacting with other people causes his brain to use too much “energy” and makes him crash.

    My TL;DR is a gross oversimplification of his story and doesn’t do it any justice. When you have the time, please read what he has to say, it’s eye opening: My Story by Whitney Dafoe

    • FundMECFSResearch@lemmy.blahaj.zoneOP
      12·
      6 days ago

      Thanks for sharing. I have ME/CFS too.

      It’s not even that rare over 2 million people in the US have it, just quite a marginalised illness, mostly because it majoritarily affects women and was therefore blamed on “hysteria” till the 80s. A lot of the medical system still has prejudicicial views towards it.

      A decent chunk of the more severe Long COVID cases fit ME diagnosis criteria, which makes sense, because most ME cases have historically been caused by viral infections.

  • AAA@feddit.org
    37·
    7 days ago

    Deregulation doesn’t means less rules to benefit the people. It means less of the rules which keep the rich and corporations in check. The less rules, the more free they are to exploit the people.

    • MacN'Cheezus@lemmy.todayEnglish
      2·
      6 days ago

      Just because Trump won doesn’t mean he’s running things yet. Technically, the Biden administration is still in charge until January. This is happening on their watch.

  • minorkeys@lemmy.world
    11·
    6 days ago

    Psychopaths control important things and leverage them for money and power and influence so they can get away with being psychopaths without going to prison.

    • stringere@sh.itjust.works
      2·
      5 days ago

      Better yet, take my blood. I don’t process iron like others and it accumulates in my body. The only treatment is bloodletting (therapeutic phlebotomy).

  • savx@lemmy.worldEnglish
    9·
    6 days ago

    it’s efficiency for corporation to exploit the poor. when people like elon promotes deregulation = efficiency, they just leave the latter part on purpose.

    • MacN'Cheezus@lemmy.todayEnglish
      1·
      6 days ago

      That’s nonsense, because whenever there is a product being sold at such massive markups, there is a HUGE opportunity to make money simply by undercutting the market (i.e. selling a cheaper alternative).

      Either this is the result of overregulation forbidding cheaper, imported alternatives to be sold, monopoly control, or there’s more to the story than OP is telling us (such as iron only being this cheap in Germany because it’s subsidized / covered by insurance, etc.)

    • Clevererhans@lemmynsfw.com
      11·
      6 days ago

      That’s only part of the answer. Without capitalism the infusion wouldn’t even exist. It’s unfettered, unregulated, fundamentalist capitalism that’s the problem.

      • abracaDavid@lemmy.today
        2·
        6 days ago

        Lmao so capitalism only works when it’s HEAVILY regulated.

        I hate to tell you this, but you’re saying that capitalism only works when it’s not capitalism.

  • computerscientistII@lemm.ee
    6·
    6 days ago

    I wonder if it is feasible to book a trip to Canada or Mexico and just buy it there. I guess pharmacies accept prescriptions of 'Murican doctors there, if patients pay themselves…