My health is very bad but keep reminding myself that my childhood cat, whose parents were littermates, who had thyroid disease and diabetes and epilepsy and hip dysplasia and brain damage, still lived to be 14, which was old for his prognosis, because he was loved and cared for. My prognosis is mid-40s/early 50s, but I believe I can outlive that, even in poverty, because my friends and I take care of each other. I'm very scared rn but trying to stabilize in the knowledge that We Are Us
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In another time Goethe would have been in several messy polycules. You cannot explain his real life Werther situation in any other way, you can't have both members of a couple send him a silhouette of the girl to hang in his room and her hair ribbons and tell me he wasn't their third
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wringing out lungs & pinning them up to dry
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Holy shit, even if I lose Medicaid, I could still afford my maintenance inhaler. Currently it's $258/month without insurance and that would be capped
Less than three months after U.S. Senator Tammy Baldwin and her colleagues launched an investigation into the four major American manufacturers of inhalers, three of the companies have relented, making commitments to cap costs for their inhalers at $35 for patients who now pay much more.
25 million Americans have asthma and 16 million Americans have chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD), meaning over 40 million Americans rely on inhalers to breathe.
Inhalers have been available since the 1950s, and most of the drugs they use have been on the market for more than 25 years.
According to a statement from the Wisconsin Senator’s office, inhaler manufacturers sell the exact same products at a much lower costs in other countries. One of AstraZeneca’s inhalers, Breztri Aerosphere, costs $645 in the U.S.—but just $49 in the UK. Inhalers made by Boehringer Ingelheim, GlaxoSmithKline, and Teva have similar disparities.
Baldwin and her Democratic colleagues—New Mexico Sen. Ben Ray Luján, Massachusetts Sen. Ed Markey, and Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders—pressured the companies to lower their prices by writing letters to GSK, Boehringer Ingelheim, Teva, and AstraZeneca requesting a variety of documents that show why such higher prices are charged in America compared to Europe.
As a ranking member of the Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions, Baldwin recently announced that as a result of the letters they had secured commitments from three of the four to lower the out-of-pocket costs of inhalers to a fixed $35.00 rate.
“For the millions of Americans who rely on inhalers to breathe, this news is a major step in the right direction as we work to lower costs and hold big drug companies accountable,” said Senator Baldwin.
A full list of the inhalers and associated drugs can be viewed here.
It’s the second time in the last year that pharmaceutical companies were forced to provide reasonable prices—after the cost of insulin was similarly capped successfully at $35 per month thanks to Congressional actions led by the White House.
-via Good News Network, March 25, 2024
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Next paycheck I am truly going to screenprint a t-shirt emblazoned with my motto/credo ("NEVER SEND ME AN EMAIL")
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Rudolf Koppitz, 1928.
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The last third of Menewood is basically just 7th-century dyke drama...Nicola Griffith, the woman that you are
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I'm not generally a mean person but have been sleeping so little and getting condescended to/sniped at by customers so often that I've just started reacting like a huge bitch. I can't do customer service, if someone is rude to me I will be rude to them back. Don't talk to me like that
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Great news everyone I remembered I don't hate my job qua job I just approach the asymptote of unstifleable anger when
Public transportation is reliably unreliable, rendering any semblance of routine impossible, forcing me to spend like 25% of my day as an involuntary participant in the grand CTA Schrodinger's commuter thought experiment
You just do not feel respected as a person when you work retail. People do not treat you like a sentient/sapient being
Your time is not your own and managers are Watching. If nobody is in the store they're like "if you can lean, you can clean" girl not if I work my wage. Pay me more than $16/hr and we'll talk about showing independent initiative. This is also about being treated like a person. I am 30 or 40 years old, if you try to helicopter parent me via micromanagement I will get bad in the brainpan
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Have barely slept this week and my brain has been vacillating wildly between two echolalic poles:
[To the tune of "Maps" by the Yeah Yeah Yeahs] Hwæt! They don't love you like I love you
[Dracula voice] I Vant To Qvit My Job
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Good morning. My brain is made of steel wool and I am taking a Lyft to work
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I have to leave for work tomorrow fewer than 8 hours after my ETA for getting home tonight and if I sleep I will oversleep my alarm. Might as well pull an all-nighter and deep clean the house
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Bus didn't come, had to take a ridiculously convoluted detour, now on penultimate leg of journey home at 10 pm, reading Stefania's 1924 essay on the philosophy of Expressionism so I don't do something drastic
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Being a little too cold: brrrr i’m a little too cold !!!
Being a little too warm: i am going to kill the next person who makes eye contact with me.
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