It’s possible for both you and the article to be right.
The system sucks, but Hims are also terrible, and medical care should not be like Amazon prime.
The system sucks, but Hims are also terrible, and medical care should not be like Amazon prime.
Speak for yourself; that is exactly what I want. And anyone else who wants a similar experience should be able to purchase it.
The way I see it, services like Hims are forcing a discussion that needs to have happened a long time ago. If people are willing to rely on them for medicines that can have some pretty serious side effects, what does that say about our existing system that people are eschewing? When you're asking people to choose between being able to afford to eat, and being able to afford something like insulin, why the fuck would you expect the decision making process to be anything otherwise?
Maybe many americans would disagree, right until the moment when they're nearly vomiting their guts out at the pharmacy, waiting for their zofran, which is going to cost them several hundred dollars, just because they're getting a version with a little glucose added so it doesn't taste as bad when you take it.
"clearly we need to spend more on lobbying to get our ability to extract out pound of flesh more thoroughly written into the law"
-the system
That's not medical care.
Everyone wants to be the sickest person in whatever health care pool they are in, but that's not sustainable
Personally I think viagra should be OTC, there’s no reason to gatekeep erectile dysfunction medicine.
If you’re not willing to do that than don’t try to take a holier than thou attitude against the supplement crowd. At least fish oil actually does help a tiny bit. Certainly more effective than 99.99% of adjustments.
With an HSA, I'm basically self-insured for everything short of something catastrophic.
I don't know if I'm an outlier in this American Carnage, but with very few exceptions, this is the norm in my circles.
These are not the same magnitude of sin, particularly since one's shortcomings are large reason for the existence of the other.
This article is pure FUD pearl clutching