When a generic drug will cure or alleviate horrific pains in a family member, but insurance won’t pay for it, as it has not been studied . Why it is not studied? The answer is, in that it is already generic, so there is no motivation because no big money will be made, so no one will pay for the study. Insurance companies use this as a justification to say that they will not cover the treatment. Capitalism at its worst. Damn CEOs can afford it though-
Now you are at the mercy of the only practitioner that will give the medication, which has not been studied, but which works. Next you are exploited to get this generic medication and overcharged by the private physician.
You might get it when you have to pull the rest of your 401k out (after the crash) out in a loan to pay for these treatments that are$ 1500 a day but are the only known medication that truly relieves the most painful of conditions called RSD/CRPS. People even leave the county to get into comas to try to alleviate this pain, but a family can be devastated, lose their home be destroyed by the illness, and there is no help.
Is humanity this unkind to each other? No, but COMPANIES are, and they do not care. It is up to you to CARE , it is up to you to !!! OCCUPY !!! demand kindness- WE are the 99% WE all deserve better than this.
RSD/CRPS can happen to anyone after an injury as small as a bee sting, or after a surgical treatment to a limb, a break of an ankle, a sprain or a variety of other injuries. . The medication is a generic called Ketamine. It is very safe when used in anesthesiology, and is often used because of that when an unconscious un reporting patient arrives.
I saw a family devastated by this illness when the mother got it all over her body after a car accident and injured her ankle. The disease spread all over her body to all of her limbs. The home she lived in became too hot for her to physically tolerate as pain was too intense to handle. Even breezes from fans on the skin are too much, and thread on sheets are too painful, even touch at all is too intensely painful to be tolerated a times sometime atrophy attacks as well, and limb use is lost. The pain of this illness is one where people will result to treatments such as a coma to get relief.
People do not know about this illness so I usually tell them to think about House the Dr on TV and his foot, and issues with pain meds and different experiences. He has this disease in only one foot. Fictionally in the TV case, the pain stops end take.
Funds were exhausted, the family had no choice but to leave their home and search for a climate that would cause less pain. There is no help for them as they search, no services for ‘transients’ ; it should have never happened. The insurance should have paid for the infusions from the beginning. The CEOs and such decided not to pay. The family was devastated financially; the husband, left on his own, with two devastated children, the mother still in pain-horrific pain, and no help. When a person can’t even be touched is crying in pain and a generic cheap drug exists but they can’t get it, this should be a crime.
Put them in handcuffs for their cruelty OCCUPY !
Is humanity this unkind to each other? No, but COMPANIES are, and they do not care ABOUT PEOPLE. It is up to you to CARE , it is up to you to !!! OCCUPY !!! demand kindness- WE are the 99% WE all deserve better than this.
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