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TedStriker6/07/2018 1:27:36 pm PDT

re: #33 JordanRules

#Texas man decapitated a Western diamondback #rattlesnake after hearing his wife scream while gardening. Ten minutes later - when he picked up the snake’s head - it bit him. The 40 year old man had to be given 26 doses of #antivenom after slipping into coma. pic.twitter.com

— Richard Dagenais (@Dagenator) June 7, 2018

After that course of treatment, if they don’t have insurance or have a shitty plan, he’s going to wish he had died, because, here in the Good Ol’ USA, that antivenom will bankrupt him and his wife.

From the Wiki on CroFab:

Leslie Boyer, Director of the VIPER Institute, who was on the team that developed CroFab, said they were “crestfallen” to discover that the wholesale price of Anascorp, their latest antivenom, was too high to be cost effective, even in the treatment of critically ill children. The industry website Fierce Pharma called the product a “drug launch disaster” and “one of the most bizarre marketing tales in the industry.” Boyer said that CroFab, a US drug whose sister product retailed in Mexico at $100, was resulting in bills to Arizona patients of between $7,900 and $39,652 per vial. One person rejected treatment and died because he couldn’t afford to pay for it. Boyer collected data on the cost of production and marketing, and found that the largest true cost to payers, $4100/vial, was that of the legal, regulatory and hospital activities involved in selling the drug. Clinical trials contributed $300/vial, and 25% of that had been paid for by government grants. Other costs were the same as in Mexico.[2][3]

No one should fucking have to choose to die instead of getting lifesaving treatment that would put them in the poor house for the rest of their lives, but it happens all the fucking time in our goddamn Shining City on the Hill.