I did change to a doc in Virginia, with whom I do tele-med visits and pay out of pocket (because insurance won't pay). She's the one who prescribed IVM for me.
I keep the other guy, nominally anyway, in case I need him in a way that the VA doc can't provide, since I'm a flight away from VA and can't get there quickly or easily.
I saw one of the doctors from FLCC is offering telemed for IVM. He wants around $350 for the consult. The IVM (at least around these parts) goes for about $100. Yes. It should cost about @20, but do you think the feds will investigate that gouging? No.
Well it's not really gouging if he's not the only doc around, and not the only source for IVM. I think I paid around $130 in VA in December for my IVM ('course 2 years ago it probably cost ten bucks), and my tele-med doc is around $125/hr IIRC.
We have two local compounders. Basically the same price. The real gouger was the out of state compounder. When you are reselling a pill in a blister pack that you pay pennies for and charging 10X what it would normally sell for, but it is scarce...
Let's put it this way: In FL (and other states and probably the feds) if you gouge people for gas, ice or groceries (and probably other things) directly before or after a hurricane (even if it is scarce), the atty gen has a special task force whose purpose is to prosecute you and win. Why, because it is unconscionable.
Directly before or after a hurricane (e.g. a natural disaster of profound proportion) is a situation very different from paying +-$100 for IVM, IMO. I say this as a resident of Puerto Rico.
I don't think IVM is scarce. What's scarce is finding a doctor not totally corrupted and beholden to corrupt, dishonest, POS health organizations and medical boards.
Well, it depends on perspective. Price gouging any time gets you in trouble btw. But doing it in an emergency or when things are scarce (see baby formula right now) will get you in trouble. But - S fla (especially in the keys) after Andrew. Ice and fuel. They had plenty of ice but 2 d after the hurricane when ppls coolers were running out of ice - 15 bucks a bag in Miami. We had a commercial ice machine down in the keys and filled our cooler and, boat's coffin box with ice and everyone else did too. I am sure someone was selling it down there, but if they gouged, the police would not be there to protect them. Haha. Anyway, hope you see my point. Not having ice is not an emergency unless you have a fridge full of food and the grocery is empty (not that you could get there).
I did change to a doc in Virginia, with whom I do tele-med visits and pay out of pocket (because insurance won't pay). She's the one who prescribed IVM for me.
I keep the other guy, nominally anyway, in case I need him in a way that the VA doc can't provide, since I'm a flight away from VA and can't get there quickly or easily.
I saw one of the doctors from FLCC is offering telemed for IVM. He wants around $350 for the consult. The IVM (at least around these parts) goes for about $100. Yes. It should cost about @20, but do you think the feds will investigate that gouging? No.
Well it's not really gouging if he's not the only doc around, and not the only source for IVM. I think I paid around $130 in VA in December for my IVM ('course 2 years ago it probably cost ten bucks), and my tele-med doc is around $125/hr IIRC.
We have two local compounders. Basically the same price. The real gouger was the out of state compounder. When you are reselling a pill in a blister pack that you pay pennies for and charging 10X what it would normally sell for, but it is scarce...
Let's put it this way: In FL (and other states and probably the feds) if you gouge people for gas, ice or groceries (and probably other things) directly before or after a hurricane (even if it is scarce), the atty gen has a special task force whose purpose is to prosecute you and win. Why, because it is unconscionable.
Directly before or after a hurricane (e.g. a natural disaster of profound proportion) is a situation very different from paying +-$100 for IVM, IMO. I say this as a resident of Puerto Rico.
I don't think IVM is scarce. What's scarce is finding a doctor not totally corrupted and beholden to corrupt, dishonest, POS health organizations and medical boards.
Well, it depends on perspective. Price gouging any time gets you in trouble btw. But doing it in an emergency or when things are scarce (see baby formula right now) will get you in trouble. But - S fla (especially in the keys) after Andrew. Ice and fuel. They had plenty of ice but 2 d after the hurricane when ppls coolers were running out of ice - 15 bucks a bag in Miami. We had a commercial ice machine down in the keys and filled our cooler and, boat's coffin box with ice and everyone else did too. I am sure someone was selling it down there, but if they gouged, the police would not be there to protect them. Haha. Anyway, hope you see my point. Not having ice is not an emergency unless you have a fridge full of food and the grocery is empty (not that you could get there).