No, nobody held up the local Walgreens. Well, they may have – I don’t know or care – that isn’t what this is about.
This is a rant about the cost and/or availability of prescription drugs.
Honey had refill prescriptions for two drugs she uses on her face. One is an ointment and the other is a cream, and she has used one or the other on alternate weeks for over ten years. Now, Medicare has made them impossible to afford. The co-pay on the “cheap” one has jumped to $186, and they won’t cover the other one at all unless she can prove that she has tried at least two alternative medications that did not work! The cost of a tube of that one – not sure if it’s the cream or the ointment, and don’t really understand the difference – is well over $600.
That led to a trip to the dermatologist this morning, and there may be light at the end of the prescription tunnel, after all. She gave Honey a sack full of samples to try, and she will write a prescription for them if they work.
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