About three in ten adults report not taking their medicines as prescribed at some point in the past year because of the cost. This includes about one in five who say they have not filled a prescription (21%) or took an over-the counter drug instead (21%), and 12% who say they have cut pills in half or skipped a dose because of the cost.
https://www.kff.org/health-costs/poll-finding/public-opinion-on-prescription-drugs-and-their-prices/
Precarity is bad for your physical and mental health. Full stop. The system is slowly killing us one paper cut at a time.
Feels bad knowing that my demise may be a result of this type of social murder (more likely that the regular automobile accident type of social murder will get me first though)
Austerity is violence. Resisting a government that imposes austerity is self-defense.
bUt iT wAS 0% APR anD i HaVe tO SmoOtH mY CoNsUmPtiOn
to be clear, i do not blame poor and indebted people for being in need or financially miseducated and then getting predated upon by financial corpos. i have heard this line from a jp morgan employee who also buys into the same logic, and i’m making fun of that.
Honestly figured it would be higher
I’m sure there are many who won’t admit it out of embarrassment.
True, fair enough
