I totally agree. I take six maintenance meds. One of them, just as an example, costs $3 a capsule and I take it 3 times a day. I get MRIs a couple of times a year and each time my bills before insurance payments are about $5,000 each. My sister-in-law takes a medication that has a $2,000 co-pay.
I know it's expensive to develop and bring medications to market. I know that an MRI machine is expensive. I know that there aren't any easy answers. But I also know that if we don't get health care costs under control we're going to break the government programs that deal with our health. And if you think we've got fiscal problems now, just wait until that happens.
Lady
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Tried to do a cut & paste but Vista is saving me from myself again.
Lady
Finally, one of the most serious problems.
Oh yess! I have health insurance too, but can't afford some critical prescriptions becouse of the cost, even with a co-pay, one pill a day cost $30.00 and thats only one of about 8 prescriptions. Now go figure, thats more than my retirement, well I could cash in the TSP. But, the prescriptions give no guarantees.
You know some of the medication information on the internet is not quite the whole truth.
The same is with physicians!
So, in my world good health care is prohibitive.
Thanks Lady, now we are getting to the issues of reality and not a bunch of yak (BS) by the rich.
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THIS IS WHERE I WOULD PUT SOMETHING TO REPRESENT MY THINKING, BUT THEN THEY SHOW UP!
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FireWeatherMet has been asked to take a ChillPill and to read the MB rules again. That might not be a bad idea for everyone to do:
http://www.tsptalk.com/mb/showpost.p...57&postcount=1
Lady
Last edited by XL-entLady; 03-17-2010 at 05:04 PM. Reason: added link to rules
Thank you, ma'am!
THIS IS WHERE I WOULD PUT SOMETHING TO REPRESENT MY THINKING, BUT THEN THEY SHOW UP!
Tracker = Check my position
Maybe you could also suggest moving from the Cabernet down to a Sauvignon Blanc or a Riesling... might take some of the venom out.
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