There's a drug I need.
Without this drug, I essentially cannot live. My allergies (and asthma) overwhelm me. I suffer sneezing fits, nosebleeds, depression, and, of course, find breathing difficult. There is nothing I can do about this other than take medicine, and claritin has minimal effect. I keep sudafed for urgent use, and it doesn't help with asthma anyway.
I switched pharmacies due to moving. The new one is across the street. Which is great.
I just got my new three month supply. Being a nice place for me, they first quoted me the non-insurance price. I was getting the generic.
The non-prescription price is 360 for a quarter. That's $4/day.
This is close to what I paid before it had a generic, when we had shitty health insurance. This is really expensive for us!
The price with insurance is under $12. For me, a trivial expense.
That is, without insurance I'd either have constant nosebleeds or have no entertainment budget. And it's a lot worse for other people.
Just a reminder that for profit healthcare is a piece of shit.
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Yyyyyup.
ReplyDeleteI'm on numerous meds, some super cheap and some not. One that I am no longer on cost nearly $1000 WITH INSURANCE but there was a convenient manufacturer's coupon that made it $25. Which was basically two different companies playing ass-buddies with each other's money. The insurance industry in this company is a pile of shit and super corrupt. No interest in helping people get better, unless them getting better means the company makes more money than with them being sick. It's despicable, and more despicable is that we NEED it, because the drug companies are in bed with the insurance companies jacking up prices until everyone at the top is a millionaire and the rest of us just huddle and die. Despicable.
ReplyDeletewhew Sorry, that rant was entirely unexpected.
I also love insurance companies getting to decide which drugs I take, regardless of side effects or efficacy. So much better than having, say, my DOCTOR pick.
ReplyDeleteGretchen S. I was in my doctor's office for a checkup when he hit a call from an insurance person -- apparently just an analyst checking on one of his patients. They asked why he had prescribed this particular (very strong) pain medication for their impinged nerve pain rather than giving them anti-inflammatories. When he mentioned this I said, incredulous, "I'm not a doctor, I'm just a computer guy, but swelling doesn't cause nerve pain like that." He and his three med student followers turned to me in surprise and he said, "Exactly. Thank you!" So, the moral of the story is that the insurance agents who make those decisions are following a corporate decision tree and have no qualifications to be making those decisions.
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