Mr. Boy is home from school today with a sinus infection. He got his flu-mist last week so he’ll escape the flu, but the sinus infections that periodically plague Mom and Dad are his burden, too, it appears. The surprise of the day was the cost of the strawberry-flavored liquid antibiotic: $122. And that’s with a health insurance co-pay and a coupon from the pediatrician. Otherwise it would have been $166. As amazing as antibiotics are–eliminating many bacterial infections that used to kill children and adults with regularity–the makers are pricing them so high that the amazement is becoming a burden. But, still, one you can’t do without.
UPDATE This unusually good (and brief) analysis of what government health insurance would look like in the USA after the various interest groups get finished with it is worth a read. Some of the scores of comments are illuminating, and a few of them are heartbreaking. Via Instapundit.
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