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[getaclue]

Perris, as with other countries, some of Canada's medicines meet our standards, some don't. Another problem is "fake" drugs. Viagra is a prime example of this. Lots of the websites advertising Viagra for so much cheaper, from Canada, were breaking down the real ones, adding corn starch, and other fillers, coloring, and re-pressing it into appropriately shaped tablets. Not only don't you know how much is really in your system, in case of adverse reaction, BUT the ingredients used as fillers carry the potential of being something the recipient might be allergic to.

 

[getaclue]

I just spent an hour out in the coop, cleaning waterers, buckets, and feeders. It's only 89 degrees out, at 70% humidity. I'm wiped out. The heat, and humidity (the sweat doesn't evaporate to cool you down), have drained my energy. In a couple minutes, I'll try to take a tepid shower, to cool down, get refreshed, and clean up.

 

[CapricornFarm]

I just spent an hour out in the coop, cleaning waterers, buckets, and feeders. It's only 89 degrees out, at 70% humidity. I'm wiped out. The heat, and humidity (the sweat doesn't evaporate to cool you down), have drained my energy. In a couple minutes, I'll try to take a tepid shower, to cool down, get refreshed, and clean up.

Some days I miss our Florida swimming pool!

 

[pennyJo1960]

I use to live on a lake here looked out over the water to mount Rainier prime spot clean water in those days ... Miss the lake a great deal ... cleaned my coops. Found miss broody out of her broody coop back in the little coop on 1 egg.. I carried back to other.. She gets one more chance...

 

[bruceha2000]

Oh and now I need label sheets to put lables on all the storage so I know what's were! lol

And take pictures for us when you make stuff.

That's a higher standard of healthcare, for those that are working, and/or can afford it. It's nothing like the standard of the free healthcare.

Agreed but the free healthcare is better than the no health care many people get in the USA.
And yes there is NO free lunch, everything has to be paid for somehow so they do it with VAT or other taxes. And of course it hits the poor harder than the better off just like any consumption tax in the USA.

 

[pennyJo1960]

Friends in whitehorse Yukon said their tax was like 20%. This was like back in 87 or so

 

[getaclue]

bruce, For the record, we do have free healthcare here, for low income families. It's called Medicaid. The standard here, is still higher than anywhere else in the world, even on Medicaid. That is why people come here from all over the world for procedures to be done. Free healthcare is only slightly better than no healthcare, as long as you don't really need anything beyond the basics. For a simple broken arm, it can take a month, or more to get an X-ray. Even our Medicaid recipients can go to most hospitals, and get an X-ray done within hours. CAT scans are routinely done in ER's within a few hours. No waiting a couple months, or longer.

 

[microchick]

I used to have a pen pal in Ireland. We would get on yahoo chat at 11 when I got home from work and she was just getting up to get the kids and husband off for the day. One night she told me that she thought she had pneumonia and had gone in for a chest xray. I told her good, she should know whether or not she has it in 24 hours or less. She told me, no, no, it would be AT LEAST a week or more before she got word. Her husband, who had Crohn's disease had to have a complete removal of his large colon done. Afterwards she told me that he had to go back into the hospital for removal of his lower intestine and rectum as he was bleeding. Sounded like an emergency to me? Nope, he was on a waiting list and kept getting bumped back.

That is why people come across the border from Canada to have surgeries done in the US. Every garden has a serpent.

As for generics, what figures in to the outlandish prices of drugs are the advertising costs that go into every drug made. More than once we have been to our dermatologist's office and seen a 'jobber' (drug rep) come in and following them (you can always tell them, ladies dressed in big city clothing, expensive haircuts, perfect figures, perfect faces, men who look like they have stepped off a cover of GQ, expensive suits, perfect smiles, tans, the works) and following them will be a caterer bringing in lunch for the staff. KA-CHING! is usually what I whisper in my husband's ear. Having worked in the medical field we saw it every day.

And those salaries/expense accounts are being paid by who? The consumer who buys the drug that is prescribed to them.

Many of the meds used in veterinary science are made by the same manufacturer as those made for humans. If you ever buy a bottle of fish flox ciprofloxacin, look it up in a PDR or on line on a site for IDing pills and compare it with one you get from your local pharmacy. I have. Same coding on pill, same size, shape and mg dosage. Slap a picture of a fish on the label and you can charge a fraction of what you will pay for it at a pharmacy for a human.

Is it the same standard? All I know is the pills look the same down to the coding stamped on the pill. Your guess is as good as mine but a difference that makes no difference is no difference.

@bruceha2000. Yes, I still use flonase. I get one bottle a month from the pharmacy that has a low copay on it through medicare and buy generic on line from either Wally World or Amazon. I think Amazon has beaten my pharmacy a couple of times but not lately. Still the price is close enough that I can keep a few extra on hand for emergencies.

I'm seriously considering a Costco membership.

 

[getaclue]

All drugs are tested on animals first, so veterinarians get them. As to cost when it's for animal use, a lot of it costs pretty much the same as it does for human use. ThomasLabs is owned by a prepper. The idea was to provide medications, without adulterating them, so they could be purchased, and safely used by humans, should the need arise.

I highly recommend their line of fish medications. Fish are very sensitive to what goes into their water, as well as what works. ThomasLabs gets good reviews on their fish products. You can order straight from them, in sealed containers.

 

[Perris]

Free healthcare is only slightly better than no healthcare, as long as you don't really need anything beyond the basics.

that is nonsense. Why do you think the people of Britain love the NHS as they do? Did you know that every Thurs at 8pm from end of March to end of May people came out of their homes to clap for carers? Google it.

For a simple broken arm, it can take a month, or more to get an X-ray.

I think someone has been pulling your leg. Let's take life expectancy as evidence of healthcare effectiveness; on the current tables, UK is 29th and US is 46th, https://www.worldometers.info/demographics/life-expectancy/