Mupirocin, a useful antibiotic cream for all sorts of skin infections, is legal to buy for dogs online fast shipping but humans require a prescription....holy shit can America cut this health system scam and massively simplify? I think price standards, per well established & standardized medical procedure code, could make sense.

I 100% know that the laws around antibiotics in American adults are not regulated for the people, they couldn't be a dog has more autonomy than an adult human. These laws and companies are legit killing people for profit with the complexity and illogical nature of American healthcare laws.

Idk man I wouldn't take dog-grade medicine

If you really want it, get your dog a prescription then take it I guess

dog medicine?
horse medicine?

I wouldn't take horse medicine either

Human-grade and prescribed though? Sure

I'm not going to buy dog grade medicine, I have no idea what could be in that. But it would be nice to be able to buy a human grade one made inside the country of 400M pple instead of it being a "controlled substance" for skin rashes...educate people and strip away health care laws for the people. It's legit more complex over time on purpose.

I'd guess the reason people need a prescription and its more expensive is 1) it maybe has bad side effects and shouldn't be bought OTC and popped like candy and 2) human-grade medicine has a much higher standard of purity and it much more expensive to purify

But who knows, we all do know the medical cartel is scum

I bet that if you could buy it at a wholesale club because the laws allowed sale to human adults that it would be 10 times cheaper than it is now when you factor in medical costs, time, actual cost everything

You know there's a reason it requires a prescription for human use, right? Yeah you can circumvent it, but they aren't trying to encourage people to misuse an antibacterial that will give rise to resistant infections.
There's a significant overlap where people don't want the regulatory headache of prescription dog medicines but we won't give non-prescription human medicines that are easy to misuse.
Not every regulatory needs to be airtight with no workaround. We just accept that some people will drink bleach or whatever

neosporin, polysporin, plenty of stuff out there. It's controlled for profit, our healthcare system is a mess, low hanging fruit for Trump imho

I'm still trying to figure out how to get a basic preventative care appointment without random modifier codes appending to the bill and billing department going 300 Sparta mode. Filed a AG complaint over the last one.

Seems providers have a policy to add on $300 charge for 'problem visit' when you've scheduled annual physical, preventative care, well being. So far the extra teeth in ACA and No Surprises has proven useless.