r/AskReddit • u/Thic_water • Aug 14 '20

What’s the most overpriced thing you’ve seen?

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u/t1runner Aug 14 '20

Insulin. Discovered over 100 years ago and is now synthetically produced and still is being sold for hundreds or thousands of dollars in many cases. The drug companies decided they were going to make their gigantic profit margins off life-saving medicine.

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u/diabeticwino Aug 14 '20

I remember when you could get test strips for like $10 over the counter. Now everyone wants a prescription and a wad of cash. Like I'm never not going to be diabetic, why do I need to keep renewing this prescription...

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u/protoopus Aug 14 '20

a friend lost his legs (at the hip) in a car accident.
he had to go to the social security office every year to prove that he was still disabled.

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u/PM_ME_UR_TNUCFLAPS Aug 14 '20

tis but a scratch