People Share The Most Ridiculously Overpriced Things

Most politicians are being paid by pharmaceutical companies to let them charge whatever they feel like.

Well the Democrats are trying to lower the prices, and even ideally make them free (Universal Healthcare). It's the Republicans that keep blocking all the legislation for it. Congress did finally pass some major prescription price stuff that they put into the Inflation Reduction ACT months ago. But we still have a long way to go.

Capitalism doesn't allow for business and corporations to care about sick people. Only profits and growth. None of those businesses care anything about you or your relatives.

When the people who can have their fingers in those pockets, why would they?

Has anyone mentioned how the same drugs are sold cheaper in other countries? Like the US healthcare system is subsidizing the rest of the world.

I live in Central America. Getting animal pharmaceutical products from our local feed store is easy. I have been using them for myself for many many years (20+) with no ill effects. Ranging from antibiotics to anti inflammatorys, Ivermectin....71 now and still going strong.

The opposite was true for us. We were prescribed dog paracetamol, but the vet said human would be fine, the only difference was that dog pills were 400mg whereas human are 500mg. For our dog it would make no difference and the saving was an order of magnitude.

This is just wicked, sinful, and wrong.

Wow, just wow...

Went through 16 years of infertility and three miscarriages. We looked into adoption and literally could not afford it. Absolutely broke my heart.

Hell, just fostering them has so many hoops to jump through it's no wonder more people don't do it.

My question is why isn't it free? The burden lies on the parent/s once the kid arrives

Capitalism doesn't see that children are placed with competent loving individuals. It's a financial screening and then tax windfall for a certain group of individuals. We as individuals love wealth and signaling it, they have placed so much pressure in our society on the individual. We can't move forward, it's so expensive and spread out to create competition on a selfish level. We don't reward community, or kindness to those less fortunate. We're taught with capitalism, you were the winner. They were the loser, don't help them, keep climbing only for yourself. This will be the ruin of humanity.

It's literally one of the most expensive liquids available

In defense of wedding photographers, most really earn that money.

Im always amazed and dumbfounded that with as fast a tech has advanced in the last 20+ years, printers are the only thing to remain unchanged.

Forget inkjets for home use. Unless you print loads, it will inevitably dry out, and you'd be lucky to make it work again. Laser printers. The colour ones are a bit more expensive, but they are a better deal. The toner does not dry out.

The same could be said for concessions at a sporting event/concert

I thought of Starbucks’ Christmas-themed drinks immediately!

And hungry people will pay those prices.

I think the rent the merchants have to pay to have a store at an airport is probably really high. This is not a fact I'm quoting, just my thoughts.

Rent in anywhere in NJ is crazy. $2,000 a month for a 1 bedroom apartment unless you are lucky enough to be on section 8 housing.

You pay for bad credit

Where I live, was one of the places the wealthy from New York and Boston fled to during COVID. They were paying over the asking price- In Cash- for even the dumpiest houses. Because of that, the real estate value went through the roof. Rents are literally tripled what they were in 2020. Now, we have a huge problem with homelessness, because so many people can't afford rent. I got approved for a section 8, housing voucher, but it's about to run out if I don't use it. The voucher is for $2,500, which sounds like a lot, until I started looking, and realized that the size of unit they approved me for is renting for $6,000 to $8,000 a month!!!! Who could afford that?

Canadian here. My daughter has asthma. We get the inhalers for free on Healthcare and I paid $40 for the fancy child inhaler tube that allows them to properly get the right dose. Taxes should go to stuff like this, not military tank graveyards. :(

Depending on where in the US you live, many medical groups will subsidize the costs for you. You would have to go to said medical group's pharmacy though. CHA in Massachusetts does this. Just tell them you are paying out of pocket. It will still cost something though. Try asking your doctor about it, that's how I found out.

My asthma doctor tells us which foreign pharmacies to order our prescriptions from...good guy, but s****y that that's what he has to do to keep his patients healthy.

The last three on here have all been US problems.

Ambulance companies avoid the high cost by simply loading single dose syringes of adrenaline

You can order many prescriptions from Canada and the UK. My parents save hundreds a month by sending their prescription to the UK. It's totally legit and their doctor has no issue sending the script to another country.

Eyebuydirect- got the whole family fitted (no insurance) for less than 1 pair at Lenscrafters with insurance. Luxottica's patent was the only one for years, but some new formulas for the resin have been discovered recently. Goliath will fall, but no one will cry about it

I buy the whole family glasses off of Zenni for around $200 for 4 pair.

Getting glasses now. Costco. Will be about $150 without insurance.

We shouldn't let funeral homes capitalize on human grief. Everyone dies and everyone loses a loved one. A celebration of a life lived and a respectful and environmentally conscious ritual for the remains should be a right to every human, not a burden placed on those grieving loss.

Personally i got no problem being left somewhere for the vultures to have at me. Nature has a pretty good cleaning and composting crew. I can't see any better use for my thoroughly used up carcass and hate the thought of good money being spent on something I have no use for.

Here's the thing they don't have to be!! it seems that we need this elaborate ceremony and fancy coffin (that's gonna be put in the ground) And a memorial for the deceased... I'm all for a green funeral... No embalming, no fancy casket... Just reduce me to ashes and use me for fertilizer

If you donate your body to a medical school, the school will normally cover the cost of cremation after the students finish. In most cases, you're even able to have a traditional funeral service before the school picks the body up. The students also have a memorial service after their classes are complete.