Mother Says Her Son Died After UnitedHealth Jacked the Price of His Inhaler From $66 to $539

https://futurism.com/neoscope/unitedhealth-optum-inhaler-lawsuit

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  1. When Cole Schmidtknect went to get his inhaler at the beginning of 2024, he was informed of an 800% price increase — and essentially told the pharmacist to kick rocks.

    “He walked out,” Schmidtknect’s father told WMTV last November. “Chose rent over his medicine.”

    Just a few days after refusing to pay for that expensive prescription, the 22-year-old had a severe asthma attack. Because he didn’t have his inhaler, his parents say, it was fatal.

  2. Imagine having to pay $539 just to be able to fucking *breathe*!

    Protect the NHS at all costs.

  3. This is what happens when elect far-right Presidents.. they do nothing while companies proce gouge

  5. Pharma will just Deny, Depose, and Defend against this mothers claim. Private healthcare is killing Americans

  6. It’s nuts that the pro-life people don’t give a rats ass about the 60,000 people that die each year from denied insurance claims (yes, I know they only care about fetuses). Legalized murder for profit. USA! USA!

  7. It’s criminal. I pay 5$ for it in Canada (Québec) and 40$ for Advair.

  8. Sadly, unless this person or their child was famous not many Americans will care

  9. Even though it is terrible and I am sorry for the family, Advair is not used for astma attacks.

    He should have had an inhalor for attacks as well

  10. Isn’t that the medication that was financed and developed by our government? Simply highjacking a product and slapping a label on it and raising the price at little to no cost should be stoped.

  11. Man I would be scared for CEO’s if this happened to my kid

  13. This would be exactly how you would systematically kill the poor without physical violence. Curious, that.

  14. I think better stated UnitedHealth did not cover the cost of his inhaler Big Pharma raised the price. But both are guilty IMHO .

  15. My inhaler has gone for $25 self pay to $ close that that much. It was $9 before Bush killed CFCs then it skyrocketed for no reason and no president has done shit. NO president.

    Watch CVS they are the devil and the highest pricing.

  17. Kaiser made me try the generic advair and it didn’t work I had several asthma attacks and yet they refused to give or cover it and only offered prednisone which they force their providers to over prescribe previously which led to shingles, nerve damage and even poorer lung function. Now I’m on a cocktail of meds just to barely breathe and keep up with life already under assault from existential threats from climate crisis exacerbated wildfires year round, world round. So yeah maybe this time it’s their little house of cards that should take the turn to go up in smoke and put the ethos back in the hands of the people paying the premiums to just barely survive

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