Wizard of Id by Parker and Hart for September 27, 2022

This is the placebo.

One time I had $251.

I went and got the 4th colvid shot and the flu shot yesterday, tried to give them my insurance card…they weren’t interested. After the shots I tried to pay, she said my insurance co paid???? Question…. she stapled a new card onto my old card for more room, meaning this is going to be annual?

That is the placebo

$522

It’s why they make tic-tak’s

Only in America.

I know that the Mafia is involved in this somehow. All the big Pharmaceutical companies are really sort of just like a big Mafia Family. Aren’t they?

Is that generic? Where I get treatments, there is a connected pharmacy. Some meds are free and most others are quite cheap. My epipens were around $30 compared to the Walmart pharmacy where it is $248.

This s funny!

$350

That is the placebo, Bro.

On second thought, never mind. It might be cheaper to be dead.

that WAS the placebo

I am fortunate for insurance. One of my meds cost $8000 per dose. Insurance balked at the price, but the doc told them there is no alternative. Insurance demands a 90 day revue.

Unfortunately, there is no placebo for insulin.

The placebo costs $500

I wonder what all this says about the future “Monkey Pox” vaccine?

I got the 4 th shot Saturday…they just used the back of my first card…no affects at all, not even a sore arm.

This is now an endemic…like the flu, yearly shots….I have never had the flu shot…every year they miss what strain really hits…why bother….

Wow $250? I can imagine what it’s like today. Oh wait….

I want the Industrial Strength Placebo.

In the old days we couldn’t afford to get sick. Now a days we can’t afford to get better.

That $250 IS for the placebo. The drug costs $1500 for a one month supply which is all that is needed given that the most frequent side effect is sudden death.

Placebo is the second best medication for almost anything. Sometimes it’s tied for first!

“Only works half as well.”

Might get you something from Jackson, Mississippi or Flint, Michigan for a small contribution to the local officials.

I always ask for the extra-strength placebos.

If you can get by with the placebo, just go home and save your money.

My pharmacist just added on shot #5 for covid at the very bottom of the first card. If I get another, in a year or whenever, I will need a new card. If I am lucky, the hospital where I volunteer will provide the next covid shots for us for free. I suspect there will be insurance coverage for future covid vaccines or low cost vaccines, because if not, many people will not get them and then we will be right back where a million or two people die in a short period of time. So, if they don’t offer it low cost, then it’s probably not needed. One reason for paying for our vaccines was to keep the hospital expenses down.

I looked on my receipt from the two shots, and there was a doctor’s name in a city an hour away from here. I never heard of him. I just hope he didn’t get paid for my shots in any way.

With a placebo, you get less side effects.

Must be a third world sh!thole country without national health/single payer.