I picked up Paddy's new meds on the way home, and to say I got 'sticker shock' is an understatement! How in the HELL do the uninsured or the poor afford this stuff?
1. I suppose many of them don't - and they go without.
And that's one of the sad things about health care in this country. When the poor and/or the elderly have to choose between eating and getting their medications, SOMETHING is horribly wrong.
15. your local phar. gets a huge kickback from the Medicare--report just
Edited on Tue Dec-07-04 07:15 PM by rodeodance
on ABC news (I think it was abc). The pharmacies industy worked with Bush Medicare people --the Medicare Reform bill--whereby they kept the drug prices inflated. the example they gave--the pharmacy paid 38 cents for one pill but got back 90 some cents.
Nothing was proposed to do something about it. It just allow to happen and the seniors pay for it (or their families)---or they go without. It is now written into LAW with the Medicare "reform" perscription drug bill!!!!!
My daughter with respiratory problems takes them when she's ill. Even with our insurance, we pay $30 for the script. (Most other scripts are between $5-$20)
Medications are so damn expensive. I have no idea how those without insurance ever afford to be sick.
I have Blue Cross/Blue Shield, I actually fought their non-coverage of two non-formulary prescriptions my doctor wrote and won. As long as your doctor is willing to get involved, it can actually be done.
It did take about 3 or 4 months for them to eventually cover the pills I needed. I pretty much did without or my doctor gave me what samples he had of them until then.
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