$295??? They're kidding right?

[Imp]

I just got off my $300 a month script (thankful for Ins) now all three scripts are $18 per month.
The test stips are about $60 per month, but someone at work gave me several boxes, after her mother died: and I won a bunch in a raffle. So I won't have to buy till next spring.

Imp

 

[Boyd]

during my son's chemo I had to give him daily injections. H-Care sent me a bill because the billing didn't go to my insurance for some dumb reason.... Something to boost his immune system and something for the red blood cells.

$5,000 per shot

Needless to say I was on the phone double quick. These were daily shots.

 

[al6517]

Wow reading some of your post just get you to thinking, the cost of some of them are crazy high. I have Ins so I don't know the original cost of some of the meds my daughter and wife take, I don't take any but I feel for those of you who do.

AL

 

[rainplace]

Someone Else's Money:
http://www.thisamericanlife.org/Radio_Episode.aspx?sched=1321

 

[vfem]

My mother got laid off, she's on cobra....

Her monthly med amount is $1500.00 for her diabetes. One insulan shot is $500.


I want to walk into her old job and slap her boss who fired her for her medical conditions and they refuse to give her any of her vacation and sick time in pay she had saved, and won't allow her to get unemployment. I hope the B.... well, you know where I'm going with this!

I can't afford to help my mom right now... We only make $1500 a month... I don't know what we should do.

I guess you really need to be blessed in some way these days for anything...

 

[gritsar]

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On the payment slips attached to my pharmacy bags, it tells me how much I would be paying if I didn't have insurance. They're outrageous.
Recently my internist put me on a newer med in a certain class of drugs that I tend to have weird reactions to. Thankfully, this is one of the few meds. in that class I can take without trouble; no weird side effects.
Shortly after I filled my script for it, my insurance company sent me a letter suggesting that I take a older, less expensive drug in the same class of drugs. There's no way I'm taking a chance with a med. that might throw my whole body into a tailspin. Most of them I've already been tried on anyhow.
I threw the letter away.

 

[hen-thusiast]

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[Sunny Side Up]

I don't have health insurance so must pay for everything myself.

WalMart has a long list of prescription drugs that cost only $4 for a 30-day supply, and $9 for a 90-day supply. I ask my doctors to first try & prescribe something from that list that will do the job for me.

Then she prescribed something that couldn't be done with one of those drugs. I called around to a number of pharmacies to find the best price for it. I was thrilled to find that Sam's Club could give me a 90-day supply for a few dollars less than most others were charging for only a 30-day supply! That alone saved me the cost of the year's membership.

 

[Chickenmaven]

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Oooooh, okay....

Nothing about corporate greed ...

or lobbyists....

I'll behave!

 

[teach1rusl]

No political view intended: I think a LOT more people would go for/support pharmaceutical/drug company reforms than what they're trying to do now (of course I could be wrong...) I know these companies invest a lot in research to come up with these medications, but I can't see how their costs can result in hundreds of dollars for a one month supply???? I don't see how people do it, especially those on fixed incomes...