Scientists in France are working on a series of hormone injections that are intended to make the breasts of a woman who has had children as firm and shapely as when she was a teenager. “It’s a series of 18 hormonal injections that must be given over a 24-month cycle. If any of the injections are skipped or postponed then the woman won’t get the full benefit of the treatment.”
Some are upset over the disparity in price for customers of the US Health Care system -which has a significant profit component- and customers in EU nations -most of which have national health-care systems, and significantly more regulation regarding patient care than the US system. “This product isn’t approved by the French National Health Service, or by the national health systems from any EU nation or Canada,” said one researcher. “The patient or her spouse has to pay cash up front for the whole series of injections. Also, US insurers have labeled this elective cosmetic treatment and none of them are going to cover it.” The problem is that the European vendor who is looking to market the series of injections to European women (and their significant others) plans to offer the entire series for 3200 euros, or roughly $4650 US Dollars, while that companies US affiliate plans to charge $14,800 for the exact same series of shots.”
Will this disparity in the cost of medical treatment (a disparity which actually reflects existing differences in drug prices between the US and Canada) be the thing that finally drives Conservatives to support the Affordable Care Act, and greater limits on profit-taking in health-care?
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Will This Story Make Even The Most Staunch Conservative Hate The For-profit Component Of Us Health-care?
Posted on February 2, 2013.
fake breasts are like low-fat ice cream. you feel less guilty when you slurp on it, but it just don’t feel the same and you are way less satisfied later.
I think people should pay for the goods and services they consume, including this one. Silly me. Incidentally, your writeup about this contains numerous contraditions and idiotic contentions contrary to the truth. It simply makes you look like an idiot. Is that your goal here?
I have a better idea. Have hearings on price gouging because that is exactly the problem here.
if something goes wrong in France, what is the potential liabilty?
if something goes wrong in the USA, what is the potential liability?
I notice once again you ignore the “for profit” element in our legal and insurance systems…. and which party is most deeply in bed with the lobbyists that represent them..
only if your going to pay the almost 15 grand!!!
your going to love grandmas new breast, I guarantee it!!
Well, right off the bat as far as your tale goes, hormone injections to make senescent breast look young with hormone injections isn’t” health care”.Maybe you want to pick a better example to talk about.