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HEY NONG MAN posted:Meanwhile, my kid requires an expensive as gently caress prescription formula that my insurance covers 100%. When the doctor found out we were covered entirely he said “I’ll just keep renewing the prescription as long as they keep paying for it. Even if you don’t need the formula, you can flip it on eBay super easily.” Wanna get an oxy scrip from that doctor.
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Grand Prize Winner posted:Wanna get an oxy scrip from that doctor. The baby formula probably sells for more.
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May 17, 2018 05:02
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I do plan on keeping a stockpile of it because he needs it right now to live but eventually I plan to find a needy parent who doesn’t have magical health insurance who needs it.
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May 17, 2018 05:05
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BrandorKP posted:That's the plan. I'm sure the food bank can find a use for it. It's really a lot of formula. keep some in case her milk runs out. half and half is better than straight formula
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May 17, 2018 05:52
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boner confessor posted:keep some in case her milk runs out. half and half is better than straight formula We did a full year last time. Fenugreek solves the supply dip problem pretty well. Also pumps are an insurance must pay for thing. But some states make getting them a a real pain in the rear end. Bar Ran Dun fucked around with this message at 06:10 on May 17, 2018 |
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May 17, 2018 05:55
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HEY NONG MAN posted:Meanwhile, my kid requires an expensive as gently caress prescription formula that my insurance covers 100%. When the doctor found out we were covered entirely he said “I’ll just keep renewing the prescription as long as they keep paying for it. Even if you don’t need the formula, you can flip it on eBay super easily.” docs looking out for you he knows the insurance is a scam
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May 17, 2018 06:43
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Yeah but it’s a hosed up side effect of monetizing the well being of human beings. E: also it smells kinda like insurance fraud
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May 17, 2018 07:34
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paragon1 posted:Calling what you're describing sweet tea is like saying French toast is from France. Never been to Texas, have you? The recipe for sweet tea there starts with making simple syrup, then steeping tea bags in it.
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May 17, 2018 11:12
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HEY NONG MAN posted:Yeah but it’s a hosed up side effect of monetizing the well being of human beings. It's textbook insurance fraud.
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May 17, 2018 11:56
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Malcolm XML posted:It's textbook insurance fraud. And, ironically, it all goes into the data set that insurance companies can then use to pump every last medical entity for even more money. Bad situation all around.
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May 17, 2018 12:15
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part of being upper middle class in america is having professionals like lawyers, accountants, doctors, etc being willing and able to cheat the system for you
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May 17, 2018 13:20
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self unaware posted:part of being upper middle class in america is having professionals like lawyers, accountants, doctors, etc being willing and able to cheat the system for you Parents lock their cleaning supply cabinets to keep infants from drinking the contents. Grocery stores lock the formula cabinets for the same reason.
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May 17, 2018 14:07
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Tnega posted:Parents lock their cleaning supply cabinets to keep infants from drinking the contents. Grocery stores lock the formula cabinets for the same reason.
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May 17, 2018 14:16
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Liquid Communism posted:Never been to Texas, have you? And in Chicago they make "pizzas" in a deep dish, and then market this perversity nation wide. It makes me so fuckin' mad bro.
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May 17, 2018 15:01
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Neon Noodle posted:No they don't, they lock them because people steal baby formula to cut heroin. You can also steal baby formula to sell it. That's why Hobby Lobby has all the oil paints and copic markers locked up.
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May 17, 2018 15:09
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why would you cut heroin with baby formula exactly?
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May 17, 2018 15:10
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self unaware posted:why would you cut heroin with baby formula exactly? People want premie product, man.
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May 17, 2018 15:26
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self unaware posted:why would you cut heroin with baby formula exactly? People cut drugs because they want to sell something watered down, or because the drug is really strong and it's easier to deal with a big pile of powder than a few grains of powder. People cut drugs with baby formula because it's not anywhere close to being a safe medical grade powder but on the list of white powders you can buy at a supermarket it's pretty up there for "things that won't instantly kill you if you accidentally inject some" compared to like laundry soap or something.
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May 17, 2018 15:38
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Why specifically baby formula and not regular powdered milk that's significantly cheaper? Or flour?
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May 17, 2018 16:05
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Lambert posted:Why specifically baby formula and not regular powdered milk that's significantly cheaper? Or flour? Buying large amounts of baby formula is probably less suspicious than the other white powders.
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May 17, 2018 16:20
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Lambert posted:Why specifically baby formula and not regular powdered milk that's significantly cheaper? Or flour? I would think people do use powdered milk. But baby formula is something you can pick up giant cans of anywhere while powdered milk is a pretty weird thing to buy most places.
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May 17, 2018 16:26
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Neon Noodle posted:No they don't, they lock them because people steal baby formula to cut heroin. [citation needed]
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May 17, 2018 17:02
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ToxicSlurpee posted:Buying large amounts of baby formula is probably less suspicious than the other white powders. you can get giant sacks of flour for cheap people dont cut heroin with baby formula. formula is expensive as gently caress and has no real advantage over powdered milk except for the sole reason of feeding a baby it's locked up because many parents can't afford formula, something babies need to survive. every formula can also has big warnings on it about not adding too much water because that's something else poor parents will do to stretch out their supply of the expensive powder and then whoops your baby is starving. if you get WIC vouchers like half the value of the vouchers is just for formula
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May 17, 2018 17:04
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Neon Noodle posted:No they don't, they lock them because people steal baby formula to cut heroin. this is the dumbest poo poo ever. no they dont. they lock it up because its expensive as poo poo, just like razors. my son would go through a $30 can of the poo poo every 2.5 days it was crazy.
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May 17, 2018 17:06
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diapers are another thing where there's a big quality of life gap for middle class and poor parents http://www.tampabay.com/projects/2018/features/baby-diaper-cost/ quote:In the United States, the average diaper sells for about 25 cents.
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May 17, 2018 17:08
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Owlofcreamcheese posted:I would think people do use powdered milk. But baby formula is something you can pick up giant cans of anywhere while powdered milk is a pretty weird thing to buy most places. lol that OOCC is going to bat for "people cut heroin with baby formula" i swear it's like a bad opinion machine like the DEA is watching powdered milk purchases to catch heroin dealers lmao
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May 17, 2018 17:16
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From a casual googling, it would appear that the "drug dealers use it to cut heroin!!!!!" narrative showed up around the time when many retailers decided to all lock up their baby formula possibly because that makes for better PR than "poo poo is expensive and poor parents have to feed their babies, enough so that shoplifting rings / a black market emerged" critical media literacy y'all?
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May 17, 2018 17:33
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boner confessor posted:diapers are another thing where there's a big quality of life gap for middle class and poor parents That's not taking into account the wide quality differences between diapers too. Some brands just don't manage to hold the poo poo in. Others don't have the yellow/blue strip that makes tracking pees per day easy. Others will straight up just irritate skin because of thier materials. It takes a lot of money to figure which ones work. Bar Ran Dun fucked around with this message at 18:57 on May 17, 2018 |
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May 17, 2018 18:45
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The blue line is a gimmick to get you to use more diapers.
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HEY NONG MAN posted:The blue line is a gimmick to get you to use more diapers. My first child got food poisoning from a grandparent (who also got got food poisoning) by giving them a sample of vegetables being grilled (we were in that transitioning to solid phase, and he was already eating said veggies at home) at a whole foods. That was the only way we could keep track of his urination to keep tabs on his hydration until he got over it, because their wasnt enough to tell by hand, ( and you're right normally it's easy).
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BrandorKP posted:That's not taking into account the wide quality differences between diapers too. Some brands just don't manage to hold the poo poo in. Others don't have the yellow/blue strip that makes tracking pees per day easy. Others will straight up just irritate skin because of thier materials. It takes a lot of money to figure which ones work. This is one the the blessings of baby showers, you often get a wide variety of diapers to try out. Then your rear end in a top hat kid develops an allergy 3 months later and you gotta buy 9 different brand of diapers anyways.
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I feel there’s some money to be made buying a bunch of different brand diapers and then packaging them together in a “variety pack” you can sell on amazon.
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boner confessor posted:you can get giant sacks of flour for cheap People that fost adopt babies receive WIC and many of the families simply sell the formula to others at a discount since they might not need all of it as well.
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May 17, 2018 19:12
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Dont have kids
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FCKGW posted:I feel there’s some money to be made buying a bunch of different brand diapers and then packaging them together in a “variety pack” you can sell on amazon. Yeah, but I think they do inner packages of a certain size to prevent this. Amazon sends one a decent box of free stuff and does two x 15% off anything on your registry. But they're also probably where the milk people got our info.
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Panfilo posted:Not every place locks up formula though. Costco for example doesn't require any special access to get it. Costco is also a pretty good deal in terms of formula and diapers, since you can get both in bulk. Costco also checks for membership at the door, so that probably changes their lost prevention formula (I'll let myself out)
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Nissin Cup Nudist posted:Dont have kids Enjoy life, disposable money, and sleep.
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prisoner of waffles posted:From a casual googling, it would appear that the "drug dealers use it to cut heroin!!!!!" narrative showed up around the time when many retailers decided to all lock up their baby formula I was working at Duane Reade at the time and this is exactly where it came from. It is true that some cold medicines and over the counter things are regularly shoplifted by dumbasses that want to get high so it was easy for retailers to extrapolate that and just say that was the same reason baby formula had to be locked up we have to stop the evil black market from taking this stuff and boiling it down into pure meth. The other one you would hear a lot is that no one who steals baby formula actually does so to re-sell it for less or use it on their own baby because the government gives you unlimited baby formula for free any time you want no matter your situation. In NYC some places will still even severely limit how much baby formula you can buy period since even now a lot of people will still get it to re-sell / send in bulk to their families/folks in China (for understandable reasons).
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Trabisnikof posted:Costco also checks for membership at the door, so that probably changes their lost prevention formula (I'll let myself out) A couple things: Costco (in California anyway) you don't need a Costco membership to buy booze, so it isn't mandatory to show it at the door. Also, a lot of poorer families will share one Costco membership, because staff seldom look at the photo carefully.
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Panfilo posted:Not every place locks up formula though.
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