geographile20 years ago, #Enbrel was a relatively new medication on the #rheumatoid disease front. My #insurance company would only cover half the cost of home injectables aside from insulin. I could not afford a $500/month #copay so I kept trying medications that wouldn't work.
Around that time a friend of mine with rheumatoid disease said that they were rolling out Enbrel very slowly in Canada and it was hard to get, and it was better for people who lived in the US where it wasn't rationed.
Oh, it was rationed.
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@[email protected] It has been an effective strategy. I accompanied someone to emergency at an Ottawa hospital. We were in the waiting room a long time with the forecasted wait time to be something like half a day. While waiting, a youngish white man who was accompanying an Inuit woman while she waited got frustrated and in loud conversation said we wouldn’t have to wait as long if healthcare was privatized. He had no idea that he wouldn’t be able to afford private healthcare.