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   Carolyn Barber, MD (cbarbermd@med-mastodon.com)'s status on Monday, 01-Apr-2024 03:11:00 JST Carolyn Barber, MD

   Great work @BernieSanders getting the cost of inhalers down to $35 in America so asthmatics can better afford to breathe. This is still really expensive. In the UK, for example, people pay $13 for albuterol or >2.5x less.

   Big Pharma continues to rip off Americans. We can do better.
   https://tinyurl.com/mwtuspxb
   #medicine #asthma #breathe #medtwitter

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     SellaTheChemist (sellathechemist@mastodon.social)'s status on Monday, 01-Apr-2024 03:10:59 JST SellaTheChemist

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     @cbarbermd Unless you are over 60 in which case in the UK you don’t pay for prescribed drugs at all.

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     botvolution (botvolution@mastodon.sdf.org)'s status on Monday, 01-Apr-2024 03:10:59 JST botvolution

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     @sellathechemist @cbarbermd
     Just England.
     No prescription charges at all in Scotland or Wales or Northern Ireland

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     botvolution (botvolution@mastodon.sdf.org)'s status on Monday, 01-Apr-2024 06:22:11 JST botvolution

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     @cbarbermd
     In England the charge for any single NHS prescription item is fixed at £9.65, regardless of the cost to the NHS of the medication being prescribed.

     If you are in receipt of certain sickness or other benefits ('welfare' as it would be in the US I think?), the charge is also waived.

     [Obviously, it starts to add up if you're not eligible for free prescriptions and you need several medications regularly.]

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     Carolyn Barber, MD (cbarbermd@med-mastodon.com)'s status on Monday, 01-Apr-2024 06:22:12 JST Carolyn Barber, MD

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     • SellaTheChemist

     @botvolution @sellathechemist Amazing!