A common rebuttal or claim from the Conservative/Republican/Libertarian echo chamber against America having a European-style healthcare system is always the bullshit about government bureaucrats making the decisions. It’s not really the case in Germany, home to the preferred system I think we should evolve towards, the Bismarck Plan.
However, my annoyance I’m posting is that one of my key medications was held up by corporate bureaucrats over the number of pills per month I receive, not the dosage. I’ll elaborate, the doctor and I have agreed on 90 mg being my daily amount to combat what ails me. This drug however is only manufactured in 30 or 60 mg pills. Sticking with easy math, I take three 30 mg pills which results in bottles of 30 pills at this measurement. Ergo, I have to purchase three bottles of this setup, or 90 pills. The bureaucracy has its underpants in a knot over my need for 90 pills as they ignore the dosage. Their flawed logic is, why can’t I take 30 or 60 pills a month instead? Again, because the manufacturer doesn’t make it in 90 mg pills which would be fine by me. Instead I get bounced around like a ping-pong ball by the insurance and pharmacy.
So I wonder from all those aging Reaganauts and Randian missionaries, where is the government at fault here? Plus, how could it be any worse? Still no sightings of hordes of Canadians rushing here to be “free.”