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When Access to Medication and Treatment Is a Matter of Life and Death
America boasts the best health care in the world. Often we hear stories of people coming to America for life-saving treatments. Yet every day people needlessly die in the good ol’ US of A. Compared to other nations, it’s disgusting how much death and suffering we accept. Every day, people living right next door to hospitals and pharmacies are suffering with little to no quality of life, and every day many of them die, while medications that could have made their lives better are a few yards away, locked in those buildings. If only they had the money to open the door. Those wonderful last years of life that could have been are not “gifted” to the poor. Our society acts pompous if we “gift” someone a medication so they can live. We tell them they should be humble, and expect them to grovel with gratitude. And it’s not just those without medical insurance, but those who have insurance with ridiculous copays that make treatment out of reach, or worse, insurance that refuses to cover what could help them live better, and perhaps longer. They deny you and tell you to jump through the hoops of an appeal. You die while appealing, and they win.